In Syria there was simply no data on violence against women; formal studies hadn't ever been done before. The issue of violence against women was kept silent here for many years. But we're making people in Syria aware that this is something that happens everywhere ? in Europe, in Asia, in the United States ? and this is opening up discussion.
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Related He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a s... JOHN IRVING She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put ... GWEN MOORE No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attack... JOE BIDEN The United States stands firmly with courageous men and women struggling for their freedom across th... ELIZABETH CHENEY Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well... GWEN MOORE part of a pressure campaign against Syria which does not stop at accusing Syria of anything evil tha... MAHDI DAKHLALLAH Is this safe for women, when in fact there have been no studies done on the long-term effects on wom... WENDY WRIGHT ,i>Since the Holy Spirit Gifts men and women alike, women should bel allowed to lead in the manne... ALAN GARRETT What we want is a national inquiry into this issue. We also need to see resources put in to communit... BEVERLEY JACOBS Political violence against women cannot be separated from political violence against the society sin... ANWAR BUNNI I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women. CAPRICE BOURRET I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might... STEPHENIE MEYER In cities, you get attention if some injustice takes place, or violence against women happens. But i... FAZAL QURESHI And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur... JAMES JONES Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance, on issues they wanted our assista... IMAD MOUSTAPHA And maybe it was more than that. 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OLDSTER By the terms of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June of last year legalizing the practice of dest... STEVEN A. COULTER Medicine is becoming a business, and if people choose medicine as a way to make money, they should g... TILDA SHALOF We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it... REBECCA SOLNIT Finland has been a great supporter in the disarmament campaign. You have a remarkably low number of ... IRENE KHAN The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to t... PATRICIA IRELAND Women need to shift from thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'l... SHERYL SANDBERG Today we are calling for reinstatement of the Violence Against Women Act, CAROLYN MALONEY Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check... APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr... GARY F EVANS... Living in the camps is hardest on the women and children. Some families are sleeping out in the open... BARBARA JACKSON We think that there is a connection between pornography, advertising and violence towards women, but... MATT EZZELL Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the up... ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo... ALICE WALKER I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria. BASHAR AL-ASSAD I can't remember a time in my life where I haven't been aware of discrimination against women and th... SOPHIE BRION The most successful terrorist group in the United States for almost 70 years was the Ku Klux Klan. T... PETE HAMILL April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. We felt this was a good time of year to plan this event, to... TRISH KLEY While it's understood that partner violence often leads to depression in women, few studies have loo... JOCELYN LEHRER When you are on your purpose, your preoccupation isn't what you don't have yet. You've already drunk... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying o... TAWAKKOL KARMAN In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. HAROLD BLOOM In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map. Libya was stable. Egypt was peaceful. Iraq was s... DONALD TRUMP It is very important that women of this country be made aware of the dangers of osteoporosis in the ... RITA MORENO Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose. BEN OAK It is when we finally realize the futility of violence and the invalidity of war will we, the people... AVIJEET DAS We came in here unarmed. We've been in these situations before. I draw your attention back to those ... DAVID WIMHURST Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisa... JENNY SHIPLEY We've been working on this for almost two years. We have 125,000 fish here to give us an opportunity... BERNIE MARCUS The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the school... KATHERINE DUNN Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for ... HAMZA YUSUF There are two kinds of males - men who stand up for women's rights & cowards. The choice is your... ABAIDA MAHMOOD The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understan... WENDY SHALIT I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international... JENNY SHIPLEY Let there be no mistake: The Department of Justice will not tolerate acts of violence or discriminat... JOHN ASHCROFT Violence against women is a universal problem. Many governments have taken serious steps to deal wit... KAMILA HYAT When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af... MICHAEL STEIN I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we... LORILIAI BIERNACKI I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we... LORILIAI BIERNACKI Millions of women continue to suffer from violence, discrimination and other abuse in societies that... JUMANA MUSA We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH We are used to thinking of Amazon myths in terms of violence against uppity women, but the ancient e... ADRIENNE MAYOR I was proud to be an original cosponsor of the Violence Against Women Act when Congress passed it in... CAROLYN MALONEY We firmly oppose the use of violence in the course of current transformations in Arab States, especi... SERGEI LAVROV Some do it (enter the data), others don't, and some don't believe they have the authority, even thou... LONNA STEVENS As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation,... CHARLOTTE BUNCH I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence agai... PATRICIA IRELAND There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumpin... NORA ROBERTS I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a par... NIELS ARDEN OPLEV The issue is about what was going on in his head that day. They were best friends. (Lopez) had never... ROB HARRIS Saddam Hussein was a nightmare for the Iraqi people, and his execution marks the end of an era when ... MIKE PENCE Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN There was no indication of any violence. They had been in for well over an hour when this man sudden... ALAN GREEN Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA. ED MARKEY It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs... KATHLEEN HANNA
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