Why we need an international Day for the Elimination of of Violence Against Women?

Only in 2013, 54 women were murdered by her husbands in our country.  This year the number is increasing. Every week there is a woman that is murder only in Spain. If we look the rest of the countries, the number is huge. Every day there are a lot of new cases of violent against women.

It’s a bad that doesn’t knows about countries, cultural or socioeconomically factors. It is a bad that unfortunately is spread out arrow the world. Worldwide, one in three women will suffer one of different kinds of violence that there is at some point in her life: physic, sexual, domestic, harassment at work or in the internet.

It is a heavy datum and insufferable. I don’t think that it can happen in a civilized world, because the problem is not only in “third world countries” who some people think. The problem is near all of us. Don’t matter if you live in the best neighborhood or in the worst, if you belong at a good family or at a bad one, if you study in the best school or any of the possible combinations. The violence is the entire world.

It is a problem that has been existing since the start of the humanity. In every each and period of the story the woman has been underestimated and treat different only because the fact to be a women.

The problem comes from far away. But maybe it’s been time to chance it. Maybe it’s time to start to chance all this shi**. Because that has been occurred always doesn’t meant that should keep happening. If we considered too developed socially why happen this horrible things every day? Why nobody have did something yet?

There are a lot of feminism seasons and movements but gives the feeling that they are not taking seriously, or not as they should be taking. Sometimes seems that be a feminist women is be a “social figure” that sometimes have to receives taunts from other sections of the society.

I think that we only could chance the situation when we shatter gender stereotypes and attitudes. When all the society takes conscience that we are all equal. And maybe it couldn’t be possible if we firs don’t challenge the culture of discrimination.


It’s time to fight against the violence and fight for all of us. Not only for the women but for humanity. Because the problem of this kind of violence is that we only know the number of women who ending murdered but behind her there are millions more that suffer it every day.

Stop the silence, start the fight!