INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. 25 NOVEMBER

https://www.un.org/en/observances/ending-violence-against-women-day

La información de esta publicación se ha obtenido de la dirección arriba indicada (Naciones Unidas). Se ha incluido la imagen de la campaña, algunos textos y 5 videos seleccionados entre los que aparecen en la página (Antonio Banderas es el primer seleccionado). La intención de esta publicación es presentar un vocabulario y discurso utilizado por la ONU en la campaña mencionada con motivo del Dia Internacional para la eliminación de la violencia contra las mujeres. En la página de UN tenéis todo el contenido.

Al final disponéis de una canción popularizada por el grupo POLICE y que no es la opción más acertada para expresar y sentir amor ("... you belong to me", " every ...... I'll be watching you").

Every 10 minutes, a woman is killed. #NoExcuse
UNiTE to End Violence against Women

Violence against women and girls remains one of the most prevalent and pervasive human rights violations in the world. Globally, almost one in three women have been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or both, at least once in their life.

For at least 51,100 women in 2023, the cycle of gender-based violence ended with one final and brutal act—their murder by partners and family members. That means a woman was killed every 10 minutes.

This scourge has intensified in different settings, including the workplace and online spaces, and has been exacerbated by conflicts, and climate change.

The solution lies in robust responses, holding perpetrators accountable, and accelerating action through well-resourced national strategies and increased funding to women’s rights movements.

Join our 16 days of activism

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women will mark the launch of the UNiTE campaign (Nov 25- Dec 10) — an initiative of 16 days of activism concluding on the day that commemorates the International Human Rights Day (10 December).

This 2024 campaign Every 10 Minutes, a woman is killed. #NoExcuse. UNiTE to End Violence against Women will draw attention to the alarming escalation of violence against women to revitalize commitments, call for accountability and action from decision-makers.

Did you know?

• Globally, an estimated 736 million women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence. Girls are at particular risk of violence—1 in 4 adolescent girls is abused by their partners.
• 16% to 58% of women globally experience technology-facilitated gender-based violence. Generation Z and Millennials are the most affected.
• 70% of women in conflict, war, and humanitarian crisis, experience gender-based violence.
• Globally, female genital mutilation has increased by 15% compared to data from eight years ago.

Source: More data from UN Women

 

What is considered violence against women

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) remains largely unreported due to the impunity, silence, stigma and shame surrounding it.

It can manifest in physical, sexual and psychological forms, encompassing:

• intimate partner violence (battering, psychological abuse, marital rape, femicide);
• sexual violence and harassment (rape, forced sexual acts, unwanted sexual advances, child sexual abuse, forced marriage, street harassment, stalking, cyber- harassment);
• human trafficking (slavery, sexual exploitation);
• female genital mutilation; and
• child marriage.

Within the UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women issued by the UN General Assembly in 1993, defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.”

This affects women at all stages of their life, including education, employment, and opportunities.

Some women and girls, such as those in vulnerable situations or humanitarian crises, migrants, LGTBI, indigenous people or those with disabilities, face greater risk.

Violence against women continues to be an obstacle to achieving equality, development, peace as well as to the fulfillment of women and girls’ human rights. All in all, the promise of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - to leave no one behind - cannot be fulfilled without putting an end to violence against women and girls.

https://www.unwomen.org/en/get-involved/16-days-of-activism

Join our 16 days of activism

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women will mark the launch of the UNiTE campaign (Nov 25- Dec 10) — an initiative of 16 days of activism concluding on the day that commemorates the International Human Rights Day (10 December).

This 2024 campaign Every 10 Minutes, a woman is killed. #NoExcuse. UNiTE to End Violence against Women will draw attention to the alarming escalation of violence against women to revitalize commitments, call for accountability and action from decision-makers.

A continuación se presentan algunos vídeos incluidos en la sección de vídeos de la página de Naciones Unidas (dirección al inicio de esta publicación). No son producciones actuales.

Film star and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Goodwill Ambassador Antonio Banderas launches a global video appeal to end violence against women in recognition of International Day for the Eradication of Violence against Women.

A fact you should know...  (UN Women)  (Podríamos decir "uno de cada tres...." o "un tercio de ...")

WHO - Violence against women: Strengthening the health system response.

World Health Organization (WHO)

One in three women throughout the world will experience physical and/or sexual violence by a partner or sexual violence by a non-partner. This violence has a wide range of short- and long-term health consequences. The health system is a place where women who have experienced violence can go to in order to receive services and support for their physical and mental health needs.

We are all women

UN Women has launched the "We are all women" campaign to raise awareness on the consequences of the violence that takes place every day against women all over the world.

This campaign was planned and developed by UN Women Uruguay office. The strategy seeks to change the perspective on violence against women, placing the issue in a different context to generate a communicational milestone with broad impact.

The video delivers a profound, direct and thoughtful message with high impact and effectiveness: end violence against women around the world, as #weareallwomen

COLLABORATORS:

The piece was planned and created by Amén Comunicación Ciudadana, a Uruguayan agency specializing in non-commercial communication, and it was produced free of charge by Bombay Films and Australia Music.

In the making of the film, they had the support of the Ministry of Health of Uruguay, the Municipality of Montevideo, and the Pereira Rossell Hospital.

Sarah’s Story: Improving essential services for survivors of violence against women and girls.

Despite extensive commitment by women’s organizations, governments and other partners, many women and girls subjected to various forms of violence still lack access to essential services. This lack of access to such services by women and girls means that they continue to suffer from the physical and mental impacts of violence. To improve the quality of and access to essential multi-sectorial services UN Women has partnered with four UN agencies (UNFPA, WHO, UNDP and UNODC) to develop the Joint Global Programme on Essential Services.

Every Breath You Take

LYRICS

Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I'll be watching you

Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
I'll be watching you

Oh, can't you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches with every step you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
I'll be watching you

Since you've gone I've been lost without a trace
I dream at night I can only see your face
I look around but it's you I can't replace
I feel so cold and I long for your embrace
I keep crying baby, baby please

Oh, can't you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches with every step you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
I'll be watching you

Every move you make
Every step you take
I'll be watching you

I'll be watching you

(Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break)

I'll be watching you

(Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play)

I'll be watching you

(Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake)

I'll be watching you

(Every single day
Every word you say) Ooh
(Every claim you stake)

I'll be watching you

BERLIN WALL ANNIVERSARY: FALL OF THE WALL 35 YEARS ON. WIND OF CHANGE - SCORPIONS

 On 9 November 2024, the world is remembering 35 years since an important moment in history - the day when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.

The Berlin Wall was built in 1961, at a time when Europe was divided in two. The wall itself divided the German capital city of Berlin for almost 30 years.

It appeared overnight, much to the surprise of people on either side of it, and stopped people moving from one part of the city to the other.

On 9 November 1989, it was torn down and people could finally move freely.

Read on to find out more about why it was built, what life was like with the wall, and how it was brought down after almost 35 years.

Why was the Berlin Wall built?

At the end of World War Two in September 1945, Germany surrendered to the Allies - a group of Western countries including Britain, America, France and the Soviet Union (a collection of Eastern European countries run by Russia).

The Allies decided to divide control of Germany between themselves. Each took responsibility for a different part of the country. Britain, America and France took over the areas in the west of Germany and the Soviet Union controlled the east.

Berlin was in the Soviet zone, but as it was the capital of Germany, it was decided that it would also be divided into four areas - one controlled by each of the four countries.

The American, British and French areas became West Berlin and the Soviet area became East Berlin.

By 1949, Germany had become two separate countries - The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) - run by Britain, America and France - and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) run by the Soviet Union.

After the division of Germany, it quickly became clear that the Soviet Union had very different ideas to the Allies about how their section should be run.

West Germany was run in a similar way to how Britain and America is today with people free to move around, listen to whatever music they like and express their opinions.

East Germany was much stricter with tight rules on how people should behave and a police force that monitored what they did.

As the years went on, thousands of people were escaping from East Germany to the West every single day - even though the main reason that the wall was built around West Berlin was to avoid this happening.

Berlin Wall timeline

 

• 1949: Germany is formally split into two independent nations - the Federal Republic of Germany (FDR or West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany).
• 1952: East Germany closes the border with West Germany, but the border between East and West Berlin remained open.
• 13 August 1961: The border between East and West Berlin is closed too, and the wall starts to be built overnight.
• 1987: US President Ronald Reagan visits Berlin and urges Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to bring the wall down.
• 4 November 1989: One million people attend a protest in East Berlin's main square Alexanderplatz. Within days of the demonstration, the East German government resigns.
• 9 November 1989: Thousands of people in East Germany go to crossing points and demand to be let through. The border guards stand back as thousands of people flood into West Berlin and start to tear down the wall.
• 3 October 1990: East and West Germany are officially reunited.

How was the Berlin Wall built?

In 1961, the leader of the Soviet Union at the time - Nikita Khrushchev - ordered a wall to be built between East and West Berlin, to stop people leaving East Germany.

It was constructed really quickly, appearing overnight on the 13 August.

Many people woke up to find they were trapped on one side, often separated from their friends and family in the West.

The wall started as barbed wire and fencing.

But over the years, it became a series of walls, strengthened fences, gun positions and watchtowers, which were heavily guarded and patrolled to make sure that people did not cross from one side to the other.

Ho

w big was the Berlin Wall?

The Berlin Wall was 155km (96 miles) long, four metres tall and - by 1989 - had 302 watchtowers.

It was in fact made up of two walls which ran parallel to each other, with an empty strip of land running in between them. This was guarded by soldiers and filled with mines to stop people from crossing the border.

It became a symbol of the division in Europe between the West and the East, and became known as the 'iron curtain'.

Soviet Union leaders said it was a protective shell, but Britain, America and France saw it as a prison which stopped people leaving the East.

What was life like with the Berlin Wall?

Around 5,000 people tried to escape over the wall, but it was very difficult and dangerous.

More than 100 people were killed trying to make this journey in the 28 years between 1961 and 1989. (Hundreds more were killed trying to flee from East Germany across other parts of the border between the East and the West.)

Life for people in East Berlin was difficult. Everything they did was heavily controlled by the authorities and rules about how they could live were very strict.

People in East Berlin who had previously worked in West Berlin lost their jobs.

Those with friends and family living on the other side to them became separated from their loved ones. For many, they wouldn't see them again until the wall came down.

What happened to the Berlin Wall?

In the 1980s, protests began against the way the Soviet Union controlled lots of countries in Eastern Europe.

People in the East wanted more freedom to go where they wanted, listen to the music they liked and voice their opinions freely - all things that they were not able to do under Soviet rule. They began demanding that they be allowed to leave.

After hundreds of East Germans escaped via neighbouring countries like Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the government in East Berlin found it increasingly hard to stop the calls for people to be allowed to cross into West Germany.

On 9 November, the leader of East Germany gave a TV speech in which he said that the border between the East and West would be opened.

Thousands of people from East Germany went to the wall and demanded that the guards open the gates.

The border guards could not control the rush of people so they had no choice but to step back, and thousands of people crossed over to West Germany.

What was it like when the Berlin Wall came down?

Crowds of people on the western side of the wall were waiting for them.

The celebrations started immediately, with family and friends embracing each other after many years apart. Some even climbed to the top of the wall and danced on it.

The date on which the wall 'fell' is considered to have been 9 November 1989, but the whole wall was not torn down immediately.

Over the following weeks, many people started to smash it down with sledge hammers and took pieces of the wall to keep because it had become so symbolic.

The government finally destroyed the wall in 1990, although many parts of it have been left for people to see today.

The following year, East and West Germany began to have conversations about reuniting the country.

On 3 October 1990 - 11 months after the fall of the Berlin Wall - East and West Germany were formally reunited as the country of Germany that we know today.

La información de este documento se ha obtenido de la siguiente dirección web

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/29913833

VOCABULARY

chip [sth]⇒ vtr	(ice, wood, etc.: break)		picar //cortar
Chip the ice before you put it in the glasses. Pica el hielo antes de meterlo en los vasos.
run [sth] by [sb], run [sth] past [sb] vtr phrasal sep		(check [sth] with [sb])		chequear algo con alguien loc verb + prep
				hacer que alguien revise algo loc verb
Be run		''managed/directed by''		manejado/dirigido por.
even though conj		(although, despite the fact that)		aunque conj
				a pesar de que loc conj
overnight adv		(during the night)		por la noche loc adv
				durante la noche loc adv
barbed adj		(having sharp points)		con púas loc adj
wire n		(metal strand)		alambre
fence n		(enclosure around property)		valla
strengthened adj		(made stronger)		fortalecido adj
		(estructura)		reforzado/a adj
shell n		(hard covering)		carcasa nf
				estuche nm
				protector nm
flee⇒ vtr		(run away from)		huir⇒ vi
rush n		(onslaught)		avalancha nf
step back vi phrasal		(retreat, move backwards)		alejarse de loc verb
				retroceder⇒ vi
flood [sth] vtr		figurative (overwhelm) (figurado)		inundar⇒ vtr
				abrumar⇒ vtr
embrace [sb]⇒ vtr		(hug)		abrazar⇒ vtr
sledgehammer n		(blunt-ended hitting tool)		almádena nf
				mazo nm

WIND OF CHANGE

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Scorpions: un himno a la caída del Muro de Berlín y el deseo de vientos de cambio

La banda alemana compuso "Wind of Change", una canción que se relaciona con la caída del Muro de Berlín.

Cada vez que se habla sobre la caída del Muro, aparece "Wind of Change", del grupo alemán Scorpions. Un clásico que luego de casi 40 años mantiene fiel su idea original: la unión de los pueblos.

"Wind of Change" fue compuesta por el cantante de la banda, Klaus Meine, y formó parte del undécimo disco de estudio Crazy World, publicado en noviembre de 1990.

"Llevame a la magia del momento, en una noche de gloria. Donde los niños del mañana sueñan con el viento de cambio", canta Klaus en el estribillo del hit.

Esta canción tuvo un tremendo éxito y superó al que tuvo unos años antes "Still Loving You". "Teníamos la sensación de que el mundo estaba cambiando delante de nuestros ojos", describió el cantante a la agencia EFE.

Pese a ser la canción por excelencia de la caída del muro, "Wind of Change" (Viento de Cambio) no habla del histórico acontecimiento que tuvo lugar en la noche del 9 de noviembre de 1989. Fue concebida antes de que se abrieran los pasos entre las dos mitades de Berlín y solo se convirtió en un himno después de su caída.

La canción expresa lo que en el verano de 1989 sentían muchos cuando los Scorpions estaban en el Festival por la Paz de Moscú: "la esperanza de que el mundo cambie y podamos vivir juntos en un mundo pacífico", describió Maine en una reciente entrevista con EFE.

"Se podía sentir que el mundo estaba transformándose y en cierto sentido todo lo que ocurrió pocos meses después en Berlín, es decir la caída del muro, era palpable en agosto en Moscú: que las cosas estaban cambiando y que los tiempos de la Guerra Fría quedarían pronto atrás", explicó el músico de 71 años.

Era difícil tocar en la Unión Soviética. En 1988 las autoridades rusas no quería al grupo en Moscú, donde iban a dar cinco conciertos y les propusieron a cambio diez en Leningrado. El KGB los seguía a cada paso, contó el cantante. En aquel tiempo, a fines de los '80, Scorpions tenía varios éxitos en las listas como como "Blackout", "Still Loving You" o "Rock You Like A Hurricane".

Triunfaron en Leningrado y abrieron la puerta para que otros artistas occidentales como Ozzy Osbourne, Bon Jovi y Mötley Crüe, tocarían un año más tarde junto a los Scorpions.

Scorpions - Wind of change I follow the Moskva Down to Gorky Park Listening to the wind of change An August summer night Soldiers passing by Listening to the wind of change The world closing in Did you ever think That we could be so close like brothers? The future's in the air I can feel it everywhere Blowing with the wind of change Take me to the magic of the moment On a glory night Where the children of tomorrow dream away In the wind of change Walking down the street Distant memories Are buried in the past forever I follow the Moskva Down to Gorky Park Listening to the wind of change Take me to the magic of the moment On a glory night Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams With you and me Take me to the magic of the moment On a glory night Where the children of tomorrow dream away In the wind of change The wind of change blows straight Into the face of time Like a stormwind that will ring The freedom bell for peace of mind Let your balalaika sing What my guitar wants to say Take me to the magic of the moment On a glory night Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams With you and me Take me to the magic of the moment On a glory night Where the children of tomorrow dream away In the wind of change

Scorpions - Viento de cambio Sigo el Moskva (río de Moscú) hacia el Parque Gorky. Escuchando el viento de cambio, una noche de verano en agosto. Soldados que pasan de largo, escuchando el viento de cambio El mundo acercándose, ¿pensaste alguna vez que podríamos estar tan juntos, como hermanos? El futuro está en el aire, puedo sentirlo en todas partes, soplando con el viento de cambio. Llévame a la magia del momento, en una noche de gloria. Donde los niños del mañana sueñan con el viento de cambio. Caminando calle abajo, recuerdos distantes están enterrados para siempre en el pasado. Yo sigo el Moskva hacia el Parque Gorky. Escuchando el viento de cambio. Llévame a la magia del momento, en una noche de gloria. Donde los niños del mañana comparten sus sueños contigo y conmigo. Llévame a la magia del momento, en una noche de gloria. Donde los niños del mañana sueñan con el viento de cambio. El viento de cambio sopla directo hacia la cara de tiempo. Como una tormenta que hará sonar la campana de la libertad para la paz del espíritu. Deja que tu balalaika (guitarra rusa) cante, lo que mi guitarra quiere decir. Llévame a la magia del momento, en una noche de gloria. Donde los niños del mañana comparten sus sueños contigo y conmigo. Llévame a la magia del momento, en una noche de gloria. Donde los niños del mañana sueñan con el viento de cambio.

 

También hay una versión del grupo de rock andaluz Medina Azahara.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medina_Azahara_(banda) 

... En 2003 es editado un nuevo trabajo titulado Aixa, con el que les darían dos premios de la música, al mejor álbum de rock y a la mejor canción con "Córdoba" (canción que contó con la colaboración de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Córdoba). También incluye una versión en castellano del mega hit Wind of Change de Scorpions