Today is International End Violence Against Women Day. It’s a day to remember the brutality visited upon millions of women around the world. I don’t want to remember the violence. I want to bear witness to a solution, just one solution each year would be great. It wouldn’t have to be massive, but it could be. The UN put together a disturbing fact sheet of statistics on violence against women around the world. I’ll just pick out one: The Democratic Republic of Congo has not only been a place were women are raped every day, many become pregnant by the rapist and have the child (there is no option to have an abortion) and must raise the child already in a state of poverty. The UN report states:
In the Democratic Republic of Congo approximately 1,100 rapes are being reported each month, with an average of 36 women and girls raped every day. It is believed that over 200,000 women have suffered from sexual violence in that country since armed conflict began.
If it really is a special day to end violence, show us. Get all the members of the UN to go into the Congo with their troops, rescue the women, girls and young children who are being raped, beaten in the conflict, take them ALL out and take them to a safe place until the conflict is over.
![via womennewsnetwork.net [A women from the eastern Republic of the Congo shows the severe injury she has sustained across her face as she was attacked. Image: Friends of the Congo]](http://meandmy1000girlfriends.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/513-CONGO_womanVictimofViolenceImageFriendsoftheCongo.jpg)
If the UN can pull off one giant event every International End Violence Against Women Day on November 25th, then that would be worth having a special day, that focuses on the beatings and the killings, but does little to quell the violence.
If it’s only a reminder that attaches FAQs with no action, then quite frankly, talk is cheap and the conversation is empty.