We all know the various types of violence against women, and we also know they can be domestic/economic/psychological/emotional/physical violence, sexual violence (such as harassment and rape), female genital mutilation, child marriage, online violence (non-consexual sex messages), personal info’s divulgation to the public, etc.
United Nations’ general Assembly defines violence against women as “any gender related violence act that can provoke physical, sexual or psychological damage to women” which includes “threat to do such things, coercion or authoritarian deprivation of freedom (both in the community and or in private life)”.
The Declaration of 1993 about the elimination of violence against women affirms that such violence can be perpetrated by people of the same sex, unknown individuals, family members and governs. Violence against women happens whatever the social/economical/racial class is, at any age, wherever the woman lives. But it is more common in some specific contexts.
“Violence is the reflection of a sense of aggression. Domestic violence is a specific kind of violence which is committed at a family level and can provoke serious damages or physical, psychological and sexual sufferance“.
Violence against women has historical, political and cultural roots, and after a long story of Women’s battles, everyone was expecting equality to come. But even though we are currently in the twenty-first century, the brutality of violence against women hasn’t lowered and the entire world is still experiencing every kind of this specific type of violence. Women suffer from one or more kind of violence through their lives. From their husbands, brothers, fathers or their male sons.
But violence against women can actually kill them: killing women is one of the types of violence that still happens in Kurdistan. And in 2021 the number of homicides of Kurdish women is growing in Iran, Iraq and Turkey.
“Honor killings in Kurdistan are mainly related to culture. Women’s bodies are essential to create a family in our society. Therefore, women’s experience is fundamental to comprehend their lives, both in Kurdistan and within the Kurdish refugees. A woman’s homicide, wherever it happens, occurs with the idea that a man’s dignity must be preserved at all cost. On the other hand there is the idea that a woman might be responsible of the maintenance of family’s dignity and herself’s.”
I think violence will probably continue until the world will stop being based on male-centred principles and patriarchal systems. But there’s an important point to underline: awareness. Basing on this, women stand up and try to earn a new way of living. They fight for freedom and to breathe. Yes, to breathe. Because inside governs and culture where there is a huge quantity of violence, there is not equal legal life and citizenship. They are sort of allowed to kill women: to them, it must be hard to breathe.
“Killing Women is an individual, domestic and social problem which has a devastating and destructive effect on public security and society’s health. Unlike other types of homicides, domestic ones, especially marital homicides, are not accidental or improbable forms of violence: they hide the painful story of any kind of domestic violence and pressure with harmful individual and social consequences”.
I live in the 21st century. I was born, i’ve studied and lived in Middle East and in the Third World. I still am a witness of every kind of violence and the tragedy of killing women: it’s not just me, nowadays the whole world is still attending these catastrophes through the Web. What is not that easy to find is the willing to uproot the system.
The whole world is relying on online campaigns and all the efforts for a better, equal and fair lives for women are transcripted on online pages. Technology might help us, such as awareness; but things will get better when women will be able to do something in the real life. But as sono as they try, they pay the price.
Freedom’s price is high and heavy; equality’s price is, too. Their price is human lives; can you pay for it?
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