as a fifteen-year-old every time that
she came home she had to face her worst
nightmare every day she ran away from
this man following her through the
stairs one day her feet couldn’t go fast
enough and this man who was at least
five years older than her made her heart
pieces he raped her and forced her to
consume drugs with him although this day
was a horrible mark to her memory
everything worse than when she found out
that she was pregnant from the man who
terrified her day by day this problem
was definitely not easy to cope with and
she didn’t experience enough confidence
to reveal it to her parents so she
decided to have an abortion today she’s
a person who has had to deal with the
loss of her child and all the
psychological repercussion that the
sexual abuse left her with I was not
only heard when I heard this story and
realized for a moment that these kinds
of situations are still happening in the
21st century but I was also heartbroken
to know that the protagonists of this
hideous event was a very close friend of
mine yet the real question relies on
what is happening to the abuser now for
centuries there has been historical
evidence showing that sexual harassment
has been a pervading problem in almost
any society on earth unfortunately there
is also historical evidence pointing to
the fact that such objectionable
behavior has been openly tolerated and
purposely overlooked the Frances 2015 a
document made by the National Institute
of Forensic Medicine and forensic
sciences states the same year
forty-seven thousand two hundred and
forty nine of domestic violence cases
reported in Colombia being women the
main victims with an eighty six point
sixty six percent other cases in the
country it is imperative to highlight
that our society has developed
structures which have encouraged gender
issues and the study is able to
demonstrate that the problem is
prevalent in our country in Colombia the
abuse towards women prevails for three
main reasons the development of
chauvinist religions the ways in which
the Colombian society confronts the
matter and at last the economical
dependence that exists in abusive
relationships first of all and many
civilizations religion has triggered the
belief that men have had greater power
control and Status than women it is an
accepted fact that men have some
privileges and rights than men don’t
possess that women don’t possess at the
ample one of Columbia’s main newspapers
mentions how seventy-five percent of our
population is Catholic which makes it
predominant to mention how the
development of patriarchal religions in
Colombia have influenced the elevated
levels of abuse against women a
psychologist from paalakollu our leader
aboah mentions how a possible
judeo-christian religion has encouraged
the spread of situations against the
feminine gender these types of religions
their sacred writings and the diverse
roles for posts through them have
influenced enrolled delegation based
upon which gender each person belongs to
consequently women have been connected
with educational roles that are still
practiced in our culture and that
stimulate the development of children
assuming that such roles belong to women
in the second place another of the main
issues without this situation is seen is
how violence towards women is address
Jackson Katz an anti sexism educator
provides a new proposal which causes a
big paradigm shift regarding this matter
women are always seen as the main
instigator in this situation and men are
left behind when talking about gender
issues he mentions how addressing to
violence against women as women’s issues
causes men’s neural pathways to have the
opportunity to take their attention of
their misconduct and help them detach
themselves from the problem culturally
speaking Colombians tend to blame women
who have been harassed or raped arguing
that they had it coming proof that
Columbia still has a chauvinist Society
is the fact that all kinds of
justifications are provided to excuse
the sexually improper behavior that they
sometimes have a painful reminder of
that social handicap is Russell Vida
series murder and rape in Bogota on the
24th of May of 2012 the cruelty of her
victimizer was such that a whole country
was shocked it was hard to believe that
a fellow-countryman could be so hard so
Harless and twisted minded however the
most shocking aspect
of this crime was the legal reply issued
by the Secretary of the city’s
government according to which prose
Alvida celli was the only responsible
for what happened that night in a park
summarizing their words she shouldn’t
have gone drinking with a pair of
lowlifes and she shouldn’t have gone to
an isolated place with a man who
eventually raped stabbed and impaled her
in short she was guilty of her own
murder due to all the unnecessary risks
she took
moreover cats also mentions how our
cognitive structures tend to lead us to
victim blaming questioning why women
brought this upon themselves the real
questions that we should be asking now
are why do men keep raping women how our
institutions encouraging and overlooking
this while the pending answers arrive
it’s crucial to take action and
challenge both our inner responses and
societies and difference men and women
to change your minds frames and unite to
take a stand to protect women and their
rights since this requires solid moral
values morally strong leadership
training should be in office so that
individuals will not be afraid to stand
up for their ideals that kind of
leadership can only be nurtured since
childhood through educational programs
that encourage tolerance inclusion and
open-mindedness that empower women to
face different kinds of challenges with
courage and dignity
needless to say women usually spend
their lifetimes dealing with several
kinds of difficulties one of the
scariest challenges that Colombian women
face when ending a sexually abusive
relationship is taking control of their
own finances it’s so much so that it has
been established that one of the main
reasons why women prefer to stay in a
violent relationship rather than leaving
and suing their abusive partner is
because they lack the necessary
self-confidence to deal with the
economical issues they feel it’s safer
to keep quiet and pretend everything’s
alright in their lives everything’s
alright in their lives
there is a clear cause for this
situation abusive partners seldom allow
their victims to have access to their
money and even the money that they have
earned by themselves according to the
National Coalition Against Domestic
Violence and force magazine a
significant proportion of women who
return to the relationship attribute
their inability to deal with their
finances as an
major contributing factor which is often
enhanced by the fact that the abuser
often has all the economic and social
standing and complete control over the
family’s finances in other words women
tend to freak out when they no longer
feel that back up from their past
relationship they don’t have access to
their money or aren’t allowed to work
and earn their own money so it makes
this challenging to leave their
relationship people may argue that many
women have married have marry wealthy
men just because of a financial
motivation however what actually happens
is that most of those women are less
than men and therefore are financially
dependent this has led to the labeling
of many people as gold diggers when in
fact they are just insecure individuals
that have been unable to assertively
earn and manage their own money this is
why many Colombian women are frequently
classified as gold diggers
despite their extreme devotion to their
work this is especially true for high
and medium class women who have married
affluent men according to el tiempo
although colombian women tend to work
longer hours have a greater
participation in the labour market and
even experience more years of academic
formation they earn an average according
to the national Administrative
Department of Statistics Doni
20.2% less than men even if they are
performing similar professions in
Colombia when there is an exception to
the rule there is there isn’t a right
implementation of laws which cover women
who are the heads of their family making
it a challenge for such families to
prosper in our societies with that in
mind people are ready to judge and
accuse many low-income women who managed
to marry well many of those who accused
them often believe that since those
women had a hidden agenda when they
married their husbands they must quietly
tolerate the sexual abuse that they are
receiving most of those most of those
abused women often hesitate to put an
end to their toxic marriages because
they fear that their decision could be
used to prove those unfounded
accusations right because of that many
of those women would rather suffer in
silence and in silence and abstain from
any action towards their sexually
aggressive partners because they fear
that they would be called gored
gold-diggers the fear society would not
understand them if they
just leave in because they are expected
to endure the mistreatment that they get
on the other hand women who are from a
lower social class have more practical
fears because they don’t actually care
about society calling them gold diggers
what they really care about is having
the necessary means to support
themselves and their families overall
there are many different factors in
Colombia that make the magnitude of
gender issues increase one of those
factors is the alarmingly acute economic
gender inequality there is in our
society this is something clearly
deduced from what the statistics about
women and men’s salaries show another
factor of the religious beliefs
that shaped the way many women have been
raised for centuries the Catholic Church
has usually expected women to be
submissive and dependent from their
husbands finally verbally abusive
language is commonly used in our country
to treat women of all ages unfortunately
this is something accepted and
encouraged in our country and that
affects the self-esteem of thousands of
Colombian women it is time to put an end
to this situation we all have something
to say and something to do to stop all
kinds of physical and emotional abuse on
women we can all create a society in
which women are perceived as as much
more than just physical beauty our
society will change if we acknowledge
every woman’s intelligence power and
Sensibility and yes we can even honor an
own flaws which makes us at the end of
the day as indispensable as men are
thank you [Applause]
she came home she had to face her worst
nightmare every day she ran away from
this man following her through the
stairs one day her feet couldn’t go fast
enough and this man who was at least
five years older than her made her heart
pieces he raped her and forced her to
consume drugs with him although this day
was a horrible mark to her memory
everything worse than when she found out
that she was pregnant from the man who
terrified her day by day this problem
was definitely not easy to cope with and
she didn’t experience enough confidence
to reveal it to her parents so she
decided to have an abortion today she’s
a person who has had to deal with the
loss of her child and all the
psychological repercussion that the
sexual abuse left her with I was not
only heard when I heard this story and
realized for a moment that these kinds
of situations are still happening in the
21st century but I was also heartbroken
to know that the protagonists of this
hideous event was a very close friend of
mine yet the real question relies on
what is happening to the abuser now for
centuries there has been historical
evidence showing that sexual harassment
has been a pervading problem in almost
any society on earth unfortunately there
is also historical evidence pointing to
the fact that such objectionable
behavior has been openly tolerated and
purposely overlooked the Frances 2015 a
document made by the National Institute
of Forensic Medicine and forensic
sciences states the same year
forty-seven thousand two hundred and
forty nine of domestic violence cases
reported in Colombia being women the
main victims with an eighty six point
sixty six percent other cases in the
country it is imperative to highlight
that our society has developed
structures which have encouraged gender
issues and the study is able to
demonstrate that the problem is
prevalent in our country in Colombia the
abuse towards women prevails for three
main reasons the development of
chauvinist religions the ways in which
the Colombian society confronts the
matter and at last the economical
dependence that exists in abusive
relationships first of all and many
civilizations religion has triggered the
belief that men have had greater power
control and Status than women it is an
accepted fact that men have some
privileges and rights than men don’t
possess that women don’t possess at the
ample one of Columbia’s main newspapers
mentions how seventy-five percent of our
population is Catholic which makes it
predominant to mention how the
development of patriarchal religions in
Colombia have influenced the elevated
levels of abuse against women a
psychologist from paalakollu our leader
aboah mentions how a possible
judeo-christian religion has encouraged
the spread of situations against the
feminine gender these types of religions
their sacred writings and the diverse
roles for posts through them have
influenced enrolled delegation based
upon which gender each person belongs to
consequently women have been connected
with educational roles that are still
practiced in our culture and that
stimulate the development of children
assuming that such roles belong to women
in the second place another of the main
issues without this situation is seen is
how violence towards women is address
Jackson Katz an anti sexism educator
provides a new proposal which causes a
big paradigm shift regarding this matter
women are always seen as the main
instigator in this situation and men are
left behind when talking about gender
issues he mentions how addressing to
violence against women as women’s issues
causes men’s neural pathways to have the
opportunity to take their attention of
their misconduct and help them detach
themselves from the problem culturally
speaking Colombians tend to blame women
who have been harassed or raped arguing
that they had it coming proof that
Columbia still has a chauvinist Society
is the fact that all kinds of
justifications are provided to excuse
the sexually improper behavior that they
sometimes have a painful reminder of
that social handicap is Russell Vida
series murder and rape in Bogota on the
24th of May of 2012 the cruelty of her
victimizer was such that a whole country
was shocked it was hard to believe that
a fellow-countryman could be so hard so
Harless and twisted minded however the
most shocking aspect
of this crime was the legal reply issued
by the Secretary of the city’s
government according to which prose
Alvida celli was the only responsible
for what happened that night in a park
summarizing their words she shouldn’t
have gone drinking with a pair of
lowlifes and she shouldn’t have gone to
an isolated place with a man who
eventually raped stabbed and impaled her
in short she was guilty of her own
murder due to all the unnecessary risks
she took
moreover cats also mentions how our
cognitive structures tend to lead us to
victim blaming questioning why women
brought this upon themselves the real
questions that we should be asking now
are why do men keep raping women how our
institutions encouraging and overlooking
this while the pending answers arrive
it’s crucial to take action and
challenge both our inner responses and
societies and difference men and women
to change your minds frames and unite to
take a stand to protect women and their
rights since this requires solid moral
values morally strong leadership
training should be in office so that
individuals will not be afraid to stand
up for their ideals that kind of
leadership can only be nurtured since
childhood through educational programs
that encourage tolerance inclusion and
open-mindedness that empower women to
face different kinds of challenges with
courage and dignity
needless to say women usually spend
their lifetimes dealing with several
kinds of difficulties one of the
scariest challenges that Colombian women
face when ending a sexually abusive
relationship is taking control of their
own finances it’s so much so that it has
been established that one of the main
reasons why women prefer to stay in a
violent relationship rather than leaving
and suing their abusive partner is
because they lack the necessary
self-confidence to deal with the
economical issues they feel it’s safer
to keep quiet and pretend everything’s
alright in their lives everything’s
alright in their lives
there is a clear cause for this
situation abusive partners seldom allow
their victims to have access to their
money and even the money that they have
earned by themselves according to the
National Coalition Against Domestic
Violence and force magazine a
significant proportion of women who
return to the relationship attribute
their inability to deal with their
finances as an
major contributing factor which is often
enhanced by the fact that the abuser
often has all the economic and social
standing and complete control over the
family’s finances in other words women
tend to freak out when they no longer
feel that back up from their past
relationship they don’t have access to
their money or aren’t allowed to work
and earn their own money so it makes
this challenging to leave their
relationship people may argue that many
women have married have marry wealthy
men just because of a financial
motivation however what actually happens
is that most of those women are less
than men and therefore are financially
dependent this has led to the labeling
of many people as gold diggers when in
fact they are just insecure individuals
that have been unable to assertively
earn and manage their own money this is
why many Colombian women are frequently
classified as gold diggers
despite their extreme devotion to their
work this is especially true for high
and medium class women who have married
affluent men according to el tiempo
although colombian women tend to work
longer hours have a greater
participation in the labour market and
even experience more years of academic
formation they earn an average according
to the national Administrative
Department of Statistics Doni
20.2% less than men even if they are
performing similar professions in
Colombia when there is an exception to
the rule there is there isn’t a right
implementation of laws which cover women
who are the heads of their family making
it a challenge for such families to
prosper in our societies with that in
mind people are ready to judge and
accuse many low-income women who managed
to marry well many of those who accused
them often believe that since those
women had a hidden agenda when they
married their husbands they must quietly
tolerate the sexual abuse that they are
receiving most of those most of those
abused women often hesitate to put an
end to their toxic marriages because
they fear that their decision could be
used to prove those unfounded
accusations right because of that many
of those women would rather suffer in
silence and in silence and abstain from
any action towards their sexually
aggressive partners because they fear
that they would be called gored
gold-diggers the fear society would not
understand them if they
just leave in because they are expected
to endure the mistreatment that they get
on the other hand women who are from a
lower social class have more practical
fears because they don’t actually care
about society calling them gold diggers
what they really care about is having
the necessary means to support
themselves and their families overall
there are many different factors in
Colombia that make the magnitude of
gender issues increase one of those
factors is the alarmingly acute economic
gender inequality there is in our
society this is something clearly
deduced from what the statistics about
women and men’s salaries show another
factor of the religious beliefs
that shaped the way many women have been
raised for centuries the Catholic Church
has usually expected women to be
submissive and dependent from their
husbands finally verbally abusive
language is commonly used in our country
to treat women of all ages unfortunately
this is something accepted and
encouraged in our country and that
affects the self-esteem of thousands of
Colombian women it is time to put an end
to this situation we all have something
to say and something to do to stop all
kinds of physical and emotional abuse on
women we can all create a society in
which women are perceived as as much
more than just physical beauty our
society will change if we acknowledge
every woman’s intelligence power and
Sensibility and yes we can even honor an
own flaws which makes us at the end of
the day as indispensable as men are
thank you [Applause]
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