{"id":64576,"date":"2015-11-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=53c11406eef55ba76325c9cc0ba40695"},"modified":"2015-11-25T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T10:00:00","slug":"news-story-fco-minister-marks-international-day-for-the-elimination-of-violence-against-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=64576","title":{"rendered":"News story: FCO Minister marks International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Y0IZb2E8pLg\">International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"attachment inline\" id=\"attachment_1297902\"><br \/>\n  <a href=\"\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/479612\/Day_for_Elimination_of_Violence_against_women_video_transcript.pdf\">Transcript for Day for Elimination of Violence against Women video<\/a><br \/>\n  (<span class=\"type\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>, <span class=\"file-size\">104KB<\/span>, <span class=\"page-length\">3 pages<\/span>)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Baroness Anelay said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAround the world 35% of women and girls will experience some form of physical or sexual violence during their lifetime. More than 700 million women alive today were married as children. 250 million of them were married before the age of 15 and it is estimated that worldwide, over 130 million women and girls have been subjected to female genital mutilation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnding this violence against women is a matter of the utmost urgency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the root of the abuse women experience &#8211; both in peaceful societies and in those struggling with the chaos of conflict \u2013 are often ideas of women as second class citizens; as objects or property controlled by men. While such attitudes are notoriously difficult to change, education is the key. I am pleased that this year\u2019s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign, which also starts today, focuses on the issue of education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and the 16 Days campaign continue to educate us all on why we must push ourselves to do more. They inspire us with examples of leadership, courage and innovation which are changing the lives of vulnerable women and girls every, single day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Minister Baroness Anelay speaks about the urgency of ending violence against women and the importance of the start of 16 days of activism campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64584,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64576\/revisions\/64584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}