{"id":46074,"date":"2016-06-13T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/seeking-international-support-salvadoran-women-join-gloria-steinem-to-fight-el-salvadors-brutality\/"},"modified":"2016-06-13T13:44:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T17:44:10","slug":"gloria-steinem-apoya-a-las-mujeres-salvadorenas-en-su-lucha-contra-el-feminicidio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/gloria-steinem-apoya-a-las-mujeres-salvadorenas-en-su-lucha-contra-el-feminicidio\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloria Steinem supports Salvadoran women in their fight against femicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 12, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Gloria Steinem, in a new episode of the Viceland TV series &#8220;<b>WOMAN<\/b>&#8221; to be broadcast on <b>14 June<\/b> (<b><span class=\"xn-chron\">10pm ET<\/span>\/<span class=\"xn-chron\">9pm CT<\/span><\/b>), takes an unflinching look at gender-based violence in <span class=\"xn-location\">El Salvador<\/span>, the country with the highest murder rate in the world.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg03a5left\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg03a5left\" title=\"Donor Direct Action: Strengthening Women Worldwide \" border=\"0\" alt=\"Donor Direct Action: Strengthening Women Worldwide \" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnvar\/20150911\/265896LOGO\"\/><\/div>\n<p>In <span class=\"xn-location\">El Salvador<\/span>, a woman is murdered every 15 hours. Often they are killed in a vicious manner, their bodies mutilated and tortured solely to inflict pain. Ending a relationship, seeking a divorce or even getting married are all reasons why women are murdered in <span class=\"xn-location\">El Salvador<\/span>. The men who carry out these murders know they will probably get away with it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the work of feminists such as those at ORMUSA &#8211; the Organization of Salvadoran Women &#8211; change is coming to <span class=\"xn-location\">El Salvador<\/span>. ORMUSA helped draft a law that came into effect in 2012 making femicide \u2013the deliberate murder of women just because they are women \u2013 a criminal category in <span class=\"xn-location\">El Salvador<\/span> and establishing special provisions to protect women from gender-based violence. But despite legal protections, 75% of femicide cases still end up never being prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The law is fine, but the ones who have to implement it are the ones who have to change,&#8221; according to Silvia Ju\u00e1rez, one of the law&#8217;s drafters, a lawyer and an activist with ORMUSA, who features in &#8220;WOMAN&#8221;. &#8220;We still have a lot to do in order to move forward and finally eradicate violence against women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ORMUSA is one of 14 women&#8217;s rights activist organizations that are being partnered by Donor Direct Action, a new project that raises funds and visibility in the <span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span> for front line activists in developing countries to combat the oppression women face around the world. From <span class=\"xn-location\">Afghanistan<\/span> to <span class=\"xn-location\">El Salvador<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Nepal<\/span> to DRC, in <span class=\"xn-location\">Syria<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Libya<\/span>, these organizations are part of the global effort to end violence and discrimination against women.<\/p>\n<p>Gloria Steinem, the host and executive producer of &#8220;WOMAN&#8221; and co-chair of Donor Direct Action, points out that there is a link between global instability and violence against women. &#8220;The greatest indicator of the world&#8217;s stability, wealth and safety is the status of women,&#8221; she says in the show&#8217;s introduction. We know &#8220;that the well being of women determines the well being of society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The eight-part Viceland television series encourages viewers to take action after watching each episode such as by contributing money to help the organizations fighting women&#8217;s oppression that feature in the show. In the episode on femicide in <span class=\"xn-location\">El Salvador<\/span>, this organization is ORMUSA and contributions to support their work can be made through their US tax-exempt partner organization, Donor Direct Action <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donordirectaction.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.donordirectaction.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The need is great: only a tiny fraction of official government aid goes directly to women&#8217;s rights organizations and even that small amount is decreasing. The majority of women&#8217;s organizations have very small budgets, often less than <span class=\"xn-money\">$25,000<\/span> a year, according to the Association for Women&#8217;s Rights in Development (AWID). Such limited access to funding weakens women&#8217;s organizations and impedes their ability to sustain their impact. By partnering with Donor Direct Action, front line women&#8217;s rights activists have greater access to individual donors around the world who can support their work through online contributions. <\/p>\n<p>Donor Direct Action is a project of The Sisterhood is Global Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Websites: <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/donordirectaction.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.donordirectaction.org<\/a> <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ormusa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.ormusa.org<\/a> <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viceland.com\/woman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.viceland.com\/woman<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DonorDirectAction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">facebook.com\/DonorDirectAction<\/a> <br \/>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/donors4women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">twitter.com\/donors4women<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20150911\/265896LOGO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20150911\/265896LOGO<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 12, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Gloria Steinem, in a new episode of the Viceland TV series &#8220;<b>WOMAN<\/b>&#8221; to be broadcast on <b>14 June<\/b> (<b><span class=\"xn-chron\">10pm ET<\/span>\/<span class=\"xn-chron\">9pm CT<\/span><\/b>), takes an unflinching look at gender-based violence in <span class=\"xn-location\">El Salvador<\/span>, the country with the highest murder rate in the world, and a cultural tradition of machismo that is instrumental in achieving this dubious honor.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;div&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interes-humano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}