Help Fight Domestic Violence
Tags: 16 Days of Action Opposing Violence against Women Campaign, domestic violence, First National Balloon Action in Solidarity with Women Living with Domestic Violence, National Balloon Action 2010, Women's Aid 
Are you reading his in work or college? If so, look around you. One in five of the women you see is affected by domestic violence. It’s a huge statistic, and it’s not going anywhere.
But what can you do about it? It’s a hugely difficult situation. If you know, or suspect, that someone you know is living with domestic violence, there is support for you.
If you, male or female, are suffering the situation directly, you aren’t as alone as you feel. There are people out there to help.
Women’s Aid – 1800 341 900 – Dublin Rape Crisis Centre – 1800 77 88 88
The 25th November is the annual International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and each year Women’s Aid use this as an opportunity to launch their 16 Days of Action Opposing Violence against Women Campaign.
As well as educating us all on the ubiquity of violence in the home, the 16 Days campaign will actively attempt to change the lives of those living in fear
The 16 Days Campaign is an important way of raising awareness of the issue at a national and local level. By being active in our communities during the campaign through events, exhibitions, public actions and debates; and by engaging with the media and local elected representatives, we can all push for positive change to make women safer.
The 16 Days of Action also makes the issue visible in our society, gives hope to women who are suffering and holds perpetrators of abuse to account.
You can easily get involved in the campaign by joiing the first ever Balloon Day. On the 25th of November at 11am Women’s 
Aid will be staging a Balloon Release outside Dail Eireann. You can join them then, or if that doesn’t suit, get your mates together and have your own balloon release in a local shopping centre, town square, or any public place where people will see you.
It’s such a simple idea, but will show solidarity with those living with domestic violence, and educate those around you on the issue.
Contact Women’s Aid for an Action Pack and further details at 16days@womensaid.ie, or on 01 868 4721.
There will also be an exhibition of posters in The Lighthouse Cinema, Smithfield, Dublin. Launching on the 25th November, it will be open from 2pm-8pm everyday until the 10th December.
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What about all the men who are victims of women’s domestic violence? Women’s domestic violence against men is grossly under reported, while male victims are still routinely being ignored by the taxpayer funded domestic violence industry. Credible research overwhelmingly shows that the ratio of d.v. is at least 50/50 between women & men. http://tinyurl.com/3sakk According to one study by researchers who work at the CDC, in 70% of domestic violence incidents, where the domestic violence is not mutual, it’s women who initiate the domestic violence. http://tinyurl.com/yzm9xhe The taxpayer funded domestic violence industry has largely mischaracterized the true nature of d.v. from the beginning and continues to mislead the public. D.V. law follows a gender feminist agenda/ideology over facts in evidence and does great harm to many innocent men (and also many battering women who need help) as shown in “Los Misandry” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAmOxvudpF8
V.P. Biden recently called violence against women, “the very worst abuse.” The very worst abuse is valuing one life less than another for having been born the wrong sex. Under Biden’s Violence Against Women Act the wrong sex is men. Shelter and services are virtually non-existent for male victims of domestic violence so those options out of a bad relationship, that are routinely available to women, are very often not available to men. Men wind up gender profiled and often falsely accused by the taxpayer funded, d.v. industry, because of gender feminist ideology controlling the d.v. industry. Men are often battered by domestic violence, and then battered again by the taxpayer funded, domestic violence industry as shown in “Los Misandry” at Youtube.
Little children are least able to contend with domestic violence in their families. According to the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services and DOJ statistics, more kids are killed by neglect and abuse in a year (1,760 in 2007), than all the female intimate partner homicides in a year. Mothers are the single largest group of kid killers, according to HHS and they have a rate twice that of fathers. Nowhere near the money is spent to protect kids from kid killing mothers as is spent by the domestic violence industry to protect women. A lot of innocent men are witch-hunted by the corrupt, gender feminist influenced, taxpayer funded, domestic violence industry. Involving the corrupt d.v. industry in an attempt to prevent abusive and neglectful deaths of children is a big mistake. No place better characterizes the corruption of the taxpayer funded, domestic violence industry than “Los Misandry” at Youtube.