Mother's Day and One Hundred Thousand Domestic Violence Cases 0

VIVAnews.com - Mother's Day falls on December 22 not only serve as an annual event. Rather, it should really give credit for liberating the mother from the various forms of violence, whether physical, psychological, economic and sexual.
According to the National Commission on Women Commissioner for Education, Research and Community Participation, Neng Dara Affiah, now the wife and mother has not been liberated from violence, especially domestic violence.
Notes Annual National Commission for Women in 2010, of a total of 105,103 cases of violence against women, 96 percent, or 101,128 cases were female victims of domestic violence (domestic violence).
Meanwhile, the National Commission for Women documentation since the year 1998-2010 shows 1 / 4 or 93,960 cases were cases of sexual violence in the form of rape, sexual harassment, trafficking in women for sexual purposes, sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and so on.
"The case is now rife and the event is repeated rape in city transportation. This should be an important concern of government, especially the fulfillment of justice and restoration for women victims and give legal sanction in kind for the perpetrators," said Neng Dara in his press statement received by VIVAnews.com, Thursday, December 22, 2011.
If violence against women is still very strong in the surrounding community, the empowerment of women will be very difficult. Because, says Dara, a prerequisite for the helpless women are freed from violence in any form.
"Violence against women is a mental impact on depression and acute mental fragility, low problem-solving ability, the desire to commit suicide or kill the perpetrators. Physically too he will impact the reproductive health problems of women," he explained.
Dara explains, the mother and the women not only have an important role in life, but in the context of public and nationality.
"Mother's Day is a day where numerous women's organizations gathered in 1928 and did I Women's Congress which was attended by 1000 people to declare the struggle against colonialism, thinking about the concept of nation state and usher in what is referred to as the era of National Awakening," he explained.
An important role here, according to Dara, who is often forgotten by the nation's history and the next generation as if the women and the mothers do not have a significant contribution in the national revival movement and the formation of Indonesia as a nation state.
"Warning Mother's Day tends to forget its history and meaning of which emerges precisely seremoninya," he said.