International Women’s Day 2013 Every year the United Nations
chooses a theme for that year’s International Women’s Day. This
theme is something many organizations choose to build on, make
their own, or change it completely. This year, 2013, I believe
the UN has chosen a great theme: “A promise is a promise: Time
for action to end violence against women.” International Women’s
Day has been celebrated since the early 1900s and is still
thriving, and unfortunately necessary, today. We live in a
country where the Violence Against Women Act comes up for
reauthorization too often, with too much debate about its
merits. Really, who could be against anything that aims to
reduce violence against women? Campaigning against violence
against women does not diminish any pursuance of eliminating
violence for all humans, but there is a particular reason why
this must be a focus of the world at this time: The United
Nations General Assembly defines “violence against women” as
“any act of gender-based violence that results in