As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
Interpretation
Ending violence against women is a fundamental responsibility of governments.
This quote emphasizes that addressing violence against women is not merely a desirable action; it is an essential duty of governments to protect human rights. It highlights the seriousness of the issue, framing it as an obligation that must be fulfilled to ensure justice and equality in society.
In practice
During a conference on human rights, this quote could be shared to emphasize the government's role.
The beginning point at both conferences must be that everything is a woman's issue. That means racism in a woman's issue, just as is anti-Semitism, Palestinian homelessness, rural development, ecology, the persecution of lesbians, and the exploitative practices of global corporations.
There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.
The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.
Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.
My parents witnessed firsthand in Haiti that if you stop speaking up, one day you'll wake up afraid to speak. They came to America so they'd never be afraid of speaking up again.
Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
In many ways, I'm incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it's visible. It means my path has been predictable.
But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.
If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.
Be informed, ask questions, band together with your community, and fight at the local level. And make sure you take your local elections as seriously as the national ones.
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