Abuse of women has historically been a private violation that has been kept within the walls of the family home. This violence has also historically been denied. Crimes against women are events still perceived as anything but crime. Now is the time to make violence against women known, seen, heard and felt. It is time to put an end to violence.
Abuse affects every corner of the lives of the people it touches.
As human beings we are psychological, emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual beings. Each aspect of a woman's being is affected by abuse. We live in a society where many attitudes, beliefs, practices and policies discriminate against women on the basis of gender. Violence against women must be examined within the individual, institutional, cultural and systemic levels, and accountability established at each. Violence against women occurs as the violation of individuals, but exists s a symptom of a social context that perpetuates women's vulnerability.