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International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women is a day is to raise awareness around the fact that women around the world are subjected to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence. The day aims to highlight that the scale and true nature of the issue is often hidden.
Historically, the date is based on the date of the 1960 assassination of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic whose killings were ordered by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo. In 1981, activists at the Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encuentros marked November 25 as a day to combat and raise awareness of violence against women more broadly; on February 7, 2000, the date received its official United Nations resolution.