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Violence against women is ingrained in our ideology
In neo-colonialist countries like Britain and the US, violence which glorifies war as a solution for settling disputes is positively portrayed in the culture of our everyday lives — and the victims are women, writes CAROL STAVRIS
Violence against women

TODAY is the United Nations general assembly’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women — this year’s theme “Orange the World: Generation Equality Stands Against Rape.”

It is a social and political calamity that gender-based violence throughout the world is still so endemic and tenacious.

According to 2019 Home Office statistics, in Britain “one in four women will experience domestic abuse and one in five sexual assault during her lifetime” (this rises to one in three across the world).

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