Society's Brutality and Violence Against Women Must Be Eliminated
As the 12 Days of Action Against Violence Against Women, from November 25 to December 6, are underway in Quebec, the situation that women face makes clear the need to change the direction of the economy.
A society that does not take care of women, who are more than half the population, to guarantee them a roof over their heads, education, a livelihood, the specific health care they require including as those who produce the next generation, security of life and mind, demonstrates that it has failed and must be changed. An electoral system that blocks any possibility for women to participate actively in society and decide on all the issues that affect them, that places them at the mercy of governments and private interests that dominate them, needs complete renewal.
Violence against women and girls remains one of the most widespread human rights violations in the world. Worldwide, nearly one in three women has experienced physical and/or sexual violence from an intimate partner, non-partner sexual violence, or both, at least once in their life.
In 2023, at least 51,100 women died as a result of gender-based violence perpetrated by a partner or family members. According to the United Nations, a woman was killed every 10 minutes worldwide in 2023.
In Canada, in 2023, a woman or girl was murdered every 48 hours
The year is not over, but there are already more murders in domestic contexts this year in Quebec than in 2023. In 2024 to date there have been 25 femicides in Quebec.
Action organized by the Regroupement des groupes de
femmes de la région de la Capitale-Nationale to denounce the
25th femicide in Quebec, November 21, 2024
Action organized by the Regroupement des
groupes de femmes de la région de la Capitale-Nationale to
denounce the 15th femicide in Quebec, June 6, 2024
According to the latest statistics available in Quebec, 75 per cent of victims of domestic violence (2022) and 100 per cent of victims of domestic homicide (2021) were women (Institut national de santé publique du Québec; Institut de la Statistique du Québec).
Women and their organizations do not accept the trivialization of violence against women and refuse to give up and accept abuse, assault and killing of women and children. They affirm: violence must not be trivialized, femicides are the tip of the iceberg. For each time there is a femicide, there are thousands of other women who are victims of domestic violence.
There are solutions: increased funding for prevention, support and housing for women who are victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence and mandatory and ongoing training on domestic violence for all those who work with women and children. Profound changes to the judicial and political system are needed to put an end to the anti-social offensive of governments that creates an untenable situation in housing, health care, education of the younger generation, the living conditions of families and so many other areas of life. And Canada must end its participation in wars of aggression and occupation in the service of the United States' war agenda which are responsible for the massacre of women and children in Palestine, Lebanon, Haiti and elsewhere.
Enough is Enough!
(With files from UN, UN Women.)
This article was published in
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
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