On November 25th, consider the women that suffer in Vancouver as you celebrate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Many of Vancouver’s prostitutes that work Vancouver’s notorious downtown eastside are victims of human trafficking—addicted to drugs and psychologically demoralized, these women are forced to work as sex slaves to pay for their drug habits. They are held under drug and debt bondage by violent pimps and gangs. They are victims of human trafficking. Remember to pray for them on November 25th.
To see how you can volunteer to make a difference for the women that are trafficked in Vancouver, see the “Stop the Traffic” tab at the top of this page.
This history of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women is taken from Wikipedia:
“Women’s activists have marked November 25 as a day against violence since 1981. On December 17, 1999, the United Nations General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (Resolution 54/134). The UN invited governments, international organizations and NGOs to organize activities designated to raise public awareness of the problem on this day as an international observance. Women around the world are subject to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence, and the scale and true nature of the issue is often hidden.
“This date came from the brutal assassination in 1960, of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, on orders of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961).
“There is more information about the history of this day, and UN publications relating to violence against women, at the UN’s Dag Hammarskjöld Library. The UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women) also has a regular observance of the day, and offers suggestions for others to observe it.”