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Siyana Georgieva-Vasileva

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This poster is created to give a voice to a story that happened in Bulgaria, June, 2023. According to the media an 18-year-old woman was beaten and disfigured with a dummy knife by her intimate partner at the age of 26. The wounds were on the arms, legs and chest. Her nose was broken, her hair was clipped and her head was also injured. As a result of the injuries, the woman received 400 stitches. The case against the abuser is still pending in court. No hand should ever harm a woman, not even with a flower.
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Stop killing women


According to UN Women, 2022 was the year in which the most women were intentionally murdered to date: nearly 89,000. Of these ‘Around 48,800 women and girls worldwide were killed by their intimate partners or other family members (including fathers, mothers, uncles and brothers). This means that, on average, more than 133 women or girls are killed every day by someone in their own family.’
If it’s not bad enough that femicide is increasing, the real statistic is probably much higher: ‘for roughly four in ten intentional murders of women and girls, there is not enough information to identify them as gender-related killings because of national variation in criminal justice recording and investigation practices’.
This must change. So this year, we want to ask your help in drawing attention to all forms of violence against women: for the world to stop killing women.

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