{"id":1888,"date":"2021-11-25T09:05:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T17:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2021-11-25T09:05:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T17:05:59","slug":"nov-25-international-day-for-the-elimination-of-violence-against-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/2021\/11\/25\/nov-25-international-day-for-the-elimination-of-violence-against-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov. 25 &#8211; International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women was issued by the UN General Assembly in 1993.\u00a0 It defines violence against women as \u201cany act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.\u201d<br \/>\nNearly 1 in 3 women are abused during their lifetime.\u00a0 Less than 40% of those will admit to that abuse and get help.\u00a0 November 25 starts a 16 day campaign to inform but also to work towards a future in which girls and women do not have to face gender-based violence.\u00a0 The campaign ends on December 10 &#8211; International Human Rights Day.<br \/>\nThis year&#8217;s theme is <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Orange the World:\u00a0 End Violence Against Women Now!\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All of us can contribute to a better and safer world; check <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/observances\/ending-violence-against-women-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the UN website<\/a> for some ideas on how you can help to <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>end violence against women<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women was issued by the UN General Assembly in 1993.\u00a0 It defines violence against women as \u201cany act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.\u201d Nearly 1 in 3 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/2021\/11\/25\/nov-25-international-day-for-the-elimination-of-violence-against-women\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1896,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}