Violence against women and girls is a grave violation of human rights. It negatively affects women's general well-being and prevents women from fully participating in society.
Violence against women and girls still takes place everyday, inside and outside the European Union. This violation of human rights is pervasive/common and has many different faces: It happens at home, at work, at school, in the street, playing sports or online. It limits women's and girls' full participation in all aspects of society __ political, cultural, social and economic.
Why this International Day?
Violence against women is a human rights violation.
Violence against women is a consequence of discrimination against women, in law and also in practice, and of persisting inequalities between men and women.
Prevention is possible and essential.
Violence against women continues to be a global pandemic (widespread).
Piracy was mostly a male occupation, but a minority of pirates were women. On many ships, women were prohibited by the ship's contract. Because of the resistance to allowing women on board, many female pirates did no identify themselves as such.
Anne Bonny dressed and acted as a man while on Captain Calico Jack's ship. She and Mary Read are often identified as being unique.
