International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is commemorated on November 25, in memory of November 25, 1960, when the sisters Patria, Minerva and Maria Theresa Mirabel were brutally killed in the Dominican Republic for their revolutionary activities and struggle for democracy. Violence against women and girls is the most common form of human rights violations. The data show that one in three women in the world are beaten, forced to have sexual intercourse, or have experienced some form of abuse, and the perpetrator is most often a man from a close environment. Violence against women is widespread around the world and knows no national borders, race, class, culture, tradition or religion. THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR VIOLENCE EVERY VIOLENCE IS A CRIME! Međunarodni dan borbe protiv nasilja nad ženama obeležava se 25. novembra u znak sećanja na 25. novembar 1960. godine kada su u Dominikanskoj republici brutalno ubijene sestre Patrija, Minerva i Marija Tereza Mirabel, zbog svojih revolucionarnih aktivnosti i borbe za demokratiju. Nasilje nad ženama i devojčicama predstavlja najčešći oblik kršenja ljudskih prava. Podaci pokazuju da su jedna od tri žene u svetu prebijene, prisiljene na seksualni odnos, ili su doživele neki vid zlostavljanja, a nasilnik je najčešće muškarac iz bliskog okruženja. Nasilje nad ženama je rašireno širom sveta i ne poznaje državne granice, rasu, klasu, kulturu, tradiciju i religiju. ZA NASILJE NEMA OPRAVDANJA SVAKO NASILJE JE ZLOČIN!