International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 2020

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is celebrated on November 25 Each year.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

Key-Points

The premise of the day is to raise awareness of the fact that women around the world are subject to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence; furthermore, one of the aims of the day is to highlight that the scale and true nature of the issue is often hidden.

The premise of the day is to raise awareness of the fact that women around the world are subject to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence.

The date is based on the date of the 1960 assassination of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic; the killings were ordered by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo (1930–1961). On December 17, 1999, the date received its official United Nations (UN) resolution.