November 25th International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

There are several types of violence against women: Domestic Violence, Sexual Violence, Harmful Traditional Practices, Trafficking in Women and Girls, etc. Some of them are more frequent in underdeveloped countries, but all of them may occur in developed countries as well, and very close to where we live.

Read some of the information linked below and then comment on what you learned or thought about this problem when were reading these pages. The following questions can help you with your comment:

- What was surprising for you in the information you have read about violence against women?
- Have you ever been a witness of this kind of violence? In that case, how did you feel?
- Do you think a "violence perpetrator" can change his behaviour?

Links:

Unifem Facts & Figures

Domestic Violence: What is it?
Imagine what it is like

Read about some of Myths and stereotypes about domestic violence.

Respect's philosophy

A collection of posters selected by my colleague Pablo

have a nice week

Past Tenses (revision)

Let's do some exercises to revise the "Past Simple" and the "Past Continuous" tenses.
To do this, go to the link http://del.icio.us/iesmariana_ip/past_tenses. You can do all or some of them, but use the order from "a" to "g".

You don't have to do any comment about this activity, but you are welcome if you feel like telling us something about it.