1. Judged for stabbing her sentimental partner They law removed to a man 7 years of jail for trying to kill her girlfriend because he had admitted that she suffered a fit of jealousy Detained for disfiguring the face of her ex- girlfriend Six months of sentence for 40 years of mistreatment A man kills her couple with a knife and carves it up A man kills his pregnant couple

2. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

3. What is? Domestic Violence happens when a family member, partner or ex-partner attempts to dominate physically or psychologically another member of the family. In the huge majority of the cases, men attempt to dominate women. This is the case that Im going to explain you.

4. Lets talk about nowadays In Spain: In 5 years women died to hands of his couple or ex-couple have increased in 9 autonomous communities. In 5 years 344 women had been murdered by their couple. In 3 years there have been 67.027 denunciations for ill-treatment of the man towards the woman. Of these, 40.518 took place last year.

5. In Latin Countries: In Bolivia 52,3% of the women denunciate ill- treatment come from their actual couple or ex- couple; in Perú, the 42,3%; in Colombia, the 39%; in Ecuador, the 31% in Nicaragua, the 40%.

6. We dont want this any more…

7. THE DAY AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 25th November

8. Why this date? Came from the brutal assassination on November 25th 1960, of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, on orders of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo.

9. Pàtria, Minerva and Maria Teresa were important women in Dominican Republic; they really fought to prohibit the cruel dictatorship of Trujillo. Pàtria, Minerva and Maria Teresa were important women in Dominican Republic; they really fought to prohibit the cruel dictatorship of Trujillo. Mirabal sisters had a huge influence in the country and as I hope youre thinking, Trujillo felt an incredible impotence of the situation. Mirabal sisters had a huge influence in the country and as I hope youre thinking, Trujillo felt an incredible impotence of the situation. He really was a terrible awful man and he murders them.

10. They were women and they were brave, those it made that the feminists organizations had taken them as an example.

11. The problem of Domestic Violence is not only for the battered woman We have to defend her rights

12. together We can do it