A) http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/women-s-rights/violence-against-women this article is about how common abuse towards women is across the world. I chose it because it tells the causes of violence against women and what states have done to try to help women out.
B)
C) http://youtu.be/dNJQrM-YKUs this video shows women being abuse and campaign ads that are used, some may not realize what others go through because it is not happening to them this video shows a little of the visual part but you will never know the emotional feelings an abused woman goes through.
D) http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/fm1/fm37pe.html this link tells all about violence against women from the actual definition, to groups to turn to as well as what we can expect for the future. I chose this article because it is packed with information about violence against women and I feel everyone should know who to turn to just in case they ever experience this, it may not happen to you but it might be happening to someone close to you.
E) This poem demonstrates my feelings while reading chapter 1 (global violence against women)
Poem- With No Immediate Cause
every 3 minutes a woman is beaten
every five minutes a
woman is raped/every ten minutes
a lil girl is molested
yet i rode the subway today
i sat next to an old man who
may have beaten his old wife
3 minutes ago or 3 days/30 years ago
he might have sodomized his
daughter but i sat there
cuz the young men on the train
might beat some young women
later in the day or tomorrow
i might not shut my door fast
every 3 minutes it happens
some woman's innocence
rushes to her cheeks/pours from her mouth
like the betsy wetsy dolls have been torn
apart/their mouths
menses red & split/every
three minutes a shoulder
is jammed through plaster and the oven door/
chairs push thru the rib cage/hot water or
boiling sperm decorate her body
i rode the subway today
& bought a paper from a
man who might
have held his old lady onto
a hot pressing iron/i don't know
maybe he catches lil girls in the
park & rips open their behinds
with steel rods/i can't decide
what he might have done i only
know every 3 minutes
every 5 minutes every 10 minutes/so
i bought the paper
looking for the announcement
the discovery/of the dismembered
woman's body/the
victims have not all been
identified/today they are
naked and dead/refuse to
testify/one girl out of 10's not
coherent/i took the coffee
& spit it up/i found an
announcement/not the woman's
bloated body in the river/floating
not the child bleeding in the
59th street corridor/not the baby
broken on the floor/
there is some concern
that alleged battered women
might start to murder their
husbands & lovers with no
immediate cause"
i spit up i vomit i am screaming
we all have immediate cause
every 3 minutes
every 5 minutes
every 10 minutes
every day
women's bodies are found
in alleys & bedrooms/at the top of the stairs
before i ride the subway/buy a paper/drink
coffee/i must know/
have you hurt a woman today
did you beat a woman today
throw a child across a room
are the lil girl's panties
in yr pocket
did you hurt a woman today
i have to ask these obscene questions
the authorities require me to
establish
immediate cause
every three minutes
every five minutes
every ten minutes
every day.
-Ntozake Shange
