Noticia En Ingles

Violence against women is a technical term used to collectively refer to violent acts that are primarily or exclusively committed against women. Similar to a hate crime, this type of violence targetsa specific group with the victim's gender as a primary motive.
The United Nations General Assembly defines "violence against women" as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likelyto result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life." The1993 Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women noted that this violence could be perpetrated by assailants of either gender, family members and even the "State" itself.[1]
Worldwidegovernments and organizations actively work to combat violence against women through a variety of programs. A UN resolution designated November 25 as International Day for the Elimination of Violenceagainst Women.[2]

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History of violence against women
Some historians believe that the history of violence against women is tied to the history ofwomen being viewed as property and a gender role assigned to be subservient to men and also other women.[3]
The UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (1993) states that "violenceagainst women is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women, which have led to domination over and discrimination against women by men and to the prevention of thefull advancement of women, and that violence against women is one of the crucial social mechanisms by which women are forced into a subordinate position compared with men.”[4][5]
In the 1870s courtsin the United States stopped recognizing the common-law principle that a husband had the right to "physically chastise an errant wife".[6] In the UK the traditional right of a husband to inflict...