Fragility
Marie Trintignant, a French actress, was beaten into a coma by her boyfriend last weekend. She died this morning. On the news, the announcer said that 6 women in France die every month from being beaten. Today we hear about one particular woman because she is a star. How many women don't we hear about, in the rest of the world?
See too L'enquête nationale sur les violences envers les femmes en France and statistics of women abused by an intimate partner (United Nations, 2000).
Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women and other documents.
Posted by sniffles at August 01, 2003 09:38 PM