November 25: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

November 25 is the " International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women". The colour orange is used as the identification color. Angelika Pfaller, Director of the Women’s Ministries Department of the Seventh-day Adventi Church in Germany, refers in this context to the worldwide annual "enditnow" emphasis day.
Pfaller explains that Adventists abhor violence in any form, regardless of whether it is violence against women, children, men, young or old people. Violence is disgusting and should not be tolerated.
Action "enditnow“
Under the motto "enditnow” - Break the silence against violence, the Women's Ministries Department offers the enditnow emphasis day every year in August. Every year on the fourth Saturday in August Adventist women from all over the world hold church services and seminars on, in which they point out how important it is that the church does not conceal the problem of abuse and violence. Extensive information material is available for this purpose. At an "enditnow emphasis day" Seventh-day Adventists say a clear NO to any form of violence. On this day there are opportunities for local church congregations to address the issue and thus remove taboos, break the silence, sensitize church members and church leaders to this problem, inform society and offer help to the victims.
Orange Day
"In fact," says Pfaller, "let's not only position ourselves against violence on November 25. Nonviolence should be our motto in life." The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, also known as Orange Day, wants to draw attention to the problem and contribute to sensitizing the concerns of women and girls and call for help. The sixteen days from "Orange Day" on 25 November to "Human Rights Day" on 10 December could thus be well used to carry out joint actions and initiate projects to address and combat violence against women.
Women's rights activists have observed 25 November as a day against gender-based violence since 1981. This date was selected to honour the Mirabal sisters, three political activists from the Dominican Republic who were brutally murdered in 1960 by order of the country’s ruler, Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961).
On 20 December 1993, the General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women through resolution 48/104, paving the path towards eradicating violence against women and girls worldwide. Finally, on 7 February 2000, the General Assembly adopted resolution 54/134, officially designating 25 November as the International day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and in doing so, inviting governments, international organizations as well as NGOs to join together and organize activities designed to raise public awareness of the issue every year on that date.
In 2001 the World Church leadership of the Seventh-day Adventists introduced an annual Abuse Prevention Emphasis Day. In 2014, it was renamed "enditnow® Emphasis Day", and focuses on domestic and sexual violence against girls and women.
Resource packets
From the website of Adventist Women’s Ministries, materials in German, French, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Romanian/Hungarian can be downloaded for this day. These include sermon outlines, power-point presentations and seminars on the topics of "Resilience" and "Forgiveness". Although an uncomfortable topic for many people, it has become increasingly clear that abuse is a serious problem for Christians, [also] Seventh-day Adventists". Abuse in any form distorts the body of Christ - this applies both to victims and perpetrators as well as to the church community, which is left with injured members.
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