Rally to End Violence Against Women and Girls, Feb. 12, 2022
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About 75 people showed up Saturday to all four corners at Esperanza and La Canada for the Rally to End Violence Against Women and Girls. Many wore purple and red, the colors associated with violence against women.
Some stats from the World Health Organization:
•Globally, about one in three women worldwide have been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.
•Worldwide, 27 percent of women ages 15 to 49 who have been in a relationship report that they have been subjected to some form of physical and/or sexual violence by their intimate partner.
•Violence can negatively affect women’s physical, mental, sexual and reproductive health and may increase the risk of HIV in some settings.
•The National Domestic Violence Hotline number is 1-800-799-7233.
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Women are equal in every sense of the word, said Vickie Caligure.
- Photos by Ellen Sussman Special to the Green Valley News
Cedar McGrath represented Pima County Justice for All.
Barbara Allardice, Barbara Hollman and Janet Roderick wore red and purple to protest violence against women.
Juy and Linda Nelson
Pamela Janes
Sylvie Robertshaw’s sign was unique.
Laurie Jurs honors women’s rights activist Dorothy McKenna, who recently passed away.
Juliana Sandahl honors her mother, whose caregiver’s boyfriend murdered her mother.
This sign honored Malala Yousafzai, who was shot on a school bus in Pakistan for advocating education for women. Malala is now 24 and married.
Gordy Noraine advocated for love.
Susan Clark showed the true sign of love between a man and woman.
All four corners of Esperanza and La Canada had men and women protesting violence against women.Â
Libby Beyrer of the Green Valley branch of American Association of University Women organized Saturday’s protest.
Signs offered a variety of messages to protect women against violence.
David Kern with his sign.
Arlynne Ostlund shows names of well-known men associated as sexual predators.
Part of crowd that gathered at the southwestern corner of Esperanza and La Canada on Saturday.
Annette Sisson wears a t-shirt and holds a sign honoring her 22-year-old daughter, Jazmine Willock. Her daughter was killed by her boyfriend in a murder-suicide in Tucson in 2018.
- Photos by Ellen Sussman Special to the Green Valley News