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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

25 November

By resolution 54/134 of 17 December 1999, the General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and invited governments, international organizations and NGOs to organize activities designated to raise public awareness of the problem on that day. Women's activists have marked 25 November as a day against violence since 1981. This date came from the brutal assassination in 1960, of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, on orders of Dominican ruler Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961).

On 20 December 1993 the General Assembly adopted Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (A/RES/48/104).

Links to UN and UN System sites:

United Nations

Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees

UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women

UN Development Fund for Women

UN Population Fund

World Health Organization

World Bank Group


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Daphne II - EU Programme to Combat Violence against Children, Young People and Women

Derechos Humanos Mujer - Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos

End Violence Against Women

Face to Face Campaign for Women

Female Genital Mutilation
Inter-Parliamentary Union

Human Rights Watch - Women's Rights

International Center for Research on Women - Violence against Women

International Women’s Tribune Centre

Stop Violence against Women
Amnesty International

White Ribbon Campaign

WomenAid

Women's Human Rights (WHRnet)


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