{"id":51140,"date":"2012-12-11T06:11:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T06:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=51140"},"modified":"2012-12-11T06:11:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T06:11:09","slug":"violence-against-women-must-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=51140","title":{"rendered":"\u201cViolence Against Women Must Stop\u201d \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These were the words of\u00a0 Human Rights Commissioner, Madam Jamestina King on\u00a0 International Human Rights Day, 10<sup>th<\/sup> December 2012 at the Seafarer\u2019s Welfare Complex, Lower Savage Square, off Fourah Bay Road, Freetown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The theme for the day\u2019s celebration was\u00a0 \u2018\u2019From Peace in the Home to Peace in the World, Let&#8217; Challenge Militarism and End Violence Against Women,\u2019\u2019 with the concept note, 16 days of Activism against Gender-based Violence,\u2019\u2019 which started November 25<sup>th <\/sup>and ended December 10<sup>th <\/sup>this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whilst delivering her speech, Jemestina noted that the 16 days of Activism against Gender-based Violence is an international campaign that was started by the Centre for Women\u2019s Global Leadership (CWGL) in 1991.\u00a0 She added that the 16 days run from 25 November,\u00a0 (International Day against violence against Women) to December 10, (International Human Rights Day), symbolizing the link against violence of women and human rights, and emphasizing that such violence is a violation of human rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She maintained, that the 16 day period captured significant dates such as World AIDS Day on December 1st; adding that since they began the activism it has been used as an organizing strategy by Women\u2019s groups in calling for an end to gender-based violence, mostly against women, through raising awareness over this serious human rights issue that has garnered weight at local, national, and international levels by strengthening work to end violence against women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She further added that gender-based violence is a universal reality existing in all societies regardless of\u00a0 economic status, class, culture or diversity, saying that so many women have in one way or another become a victim of this issue.\u00a0 She said back home it is a parochial problem as the society is patriarchal in nature, which suppresses woman from achieving their maximum potential and compromises their physical and psychological integrity.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Mary I Kamara &amp; Emma Black<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These were the words of\u00a0 Human Rights Commissioner, Madam Jamestina King on\u00a0 International Human Rights Day, 10th December 2012 at the Seafarer\u2019s Welfare Complex, Lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,1],"tags":[14355,3536,998,14356],"class_list":["post-51140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized","tag-16-days-of-activism-against-gender-based-violence","tag-gender-based-violence","tag-human-rights","tag-madam-jamestina-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}