Word Day: Violence on women termed result of sick mentality in society.

KARACHI -- Growing tendency of violence against women shows ill-mentality of our society.

The freedom of society is linked to the freedom of women, said the speakers of a gathering, organized by the Home Based Women Workers Federation (HBWWF) in New Karachi on the occasion of International Day against Violence against Women.

HBWWF general secretary Zehra Akbar Khan, speaking of the occasion, said that women could be accepted as complete human being only by ending all norms of patriarchy: social, political and economic.

She said this day of was designated as the international day against violence on women in 1999 by the general assembly of the UN.

This day is being observed in the memory of three revolutionary real sisters, Patria, Minerva and Maria Tresa, who waged a struggle against dictator of Dominica Rafael Trujillo (1930-61) who was notorious for sexual harassment.

The Mirabal Sisters and their husbands were subjected to torture and arrest but they did not budge and gave sacrifice of their lives, which resulted in the freedom of their country.

These three sisters were later recognized as the icons of women rights and remembered as Unforgettable Butterflies.

She said that women in whole world are fighting for their rights and against all sorts of discriminatory treatment against them.

She said; however, violence on women has become the part of daily life in whole world.

She regretted that...

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