Peacefully overcoming barriers

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The world we are living in is based on power relationships.

Throughout history, those who have power have discriminated those who are different and they have subjected them to their own benefit.

To allow and justify these despicable actions there have always been willing media to silence the unjustifiable, or propagandize to justify the unacceptable. There have always been governments with moral relativism enough to allow abuse or not as appropriate for the interests of powerful that keep them in power. Legislators and judges who draft and interpret laws with laxity enough for discrimination kept, and in their absence, violence against people subjected goes unpunished.

With the same violence that have acted the oppressors, the oppressed have replied. And in an unstoppable spiral over time, resentment of those who were oppressed, has become the violence against which they are now subjected.

Only a few exceptions to this rule, I would say that Universal, about the spiral of violence. Perhaps the most notable exception is precisely related to the most violent and widespread discrimination known by mankind for centuries. I mean, no doubt, discrimination based on gender.

We live in a world where half the population discriminates against the other half for being a woman. A world where three-quarters of women and girls experience physical or sexual violence over their lifetime.

However, the achievements of women on equal opportunities, rights and freedoms, have been achieved in a peaceful way through many years of struggle.

And during those years of struggle, have had to overcome all the barriers that were stood in their way imposed by the media, governments, legislators, judges and society in general.

Faced with such a execrable act of violence such as rape, we have heard arguments as detestable as that a woman or girl did not put up enough resistance, or that her appearance was provocative, or that there were no obvious signs of physical violence and therefore it is assumed that there was consent ... disgusting justifications for the unacceptable.

Faced with such a execrable act of violence such as rape, there are governments that do not put all the necessary intensity in the prevention of crime, the punishment for rapists and attention to victims. Rape is a weapon of war.

Faced with such a execrable act of violence such as rape, during the complaint and the trial, victims have to relive the horror of the memory and are criminalized for being raped.

Faced with such a execrable act of violence such as rape, women is stigmatized by society, and must confront to the trauma without any help.

According to the UN, more than 200,000 women have been raped since 1996 in DR Congo. Congolese women are fighting peacefully to break the silence and impunity surrounding sexual violence.

Fighting for Women's Rights is a struggle for everyone, and a clear sign of the society progress.

Empowering women is the guarantee of a peaceful future.




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