International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

Which women are specially vulnerable to violence? Those belonging to minority groups? Refugee women? Migrant women? Women living in rural or remote areas? Elderly women? 

We are all accountable for playing our part in reducing violence at the individual and community levels. Public awareness needs to be raised if we want to stop it. Creating a worldwide social conscience of the negative impact of violence against women on both social and economic life is urgent. No more lives, please!

Violence against women is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women, which have led to domination over and discrimination against women by men and to the prevention of their full advancement. This is one of the crucial social mechanisms by which women are forced into subordinate positions, compared to men.

In the first article of the Declaration of the Elimination of Violence against Women, violence is defined as any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women including threats, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty.

The date chosen to commemorate the lives of the Mirabel sisters, three Dominican women assassinated in 1960 during the Trujillo dictatorship, is November 25th. These women were polictical activists who have become symbols of feminine resistance. They were brave, but they were cheated. They were not the first and unfortunatelly will not be the last. That is why impunity must end, adequate resources must be allocated, new laws need to be implemented and national plans of actions to address VAW are welcome.

Watch these videos.

Autonomy and learning

Have you ever thought about how many opportunities of learning English you are missing? I am sure you haven't. "TV discourse as source material for autonomous language learning" is the title of the lecture Carmen Gregory (València University) will be giving next week at the Valencian School of Languages.

The lecture will take place on Wednesday 25 of November at 19:15 in the Main Assembley Hall, on the ground floor (Llano de Zaidia, 19, Valencia).
Intermediate and advanced levels prefered.

The lecture will approach cartoons, sitcoms and talk shows from a discourse analysis perspective.
Don't miss it!

Interested in New York?

Hello everybody!

Here is the information I have about the trip to New York. As soon as I have new information I'll pass it on to you.

This link is a video of the hostel.

ITINERARIOS DE VUELOS:

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IBERIA  333      13/MAR/2010.-   VALENCIA - MADRID          14.00 HS  -  14.50 HS

IBERIA 6253     13/MAR/2010.-   MADRID - NUEVA YORK     16.55 HS -  19.25 HS

IBERIA 6250     20/MAR/2010.-   NUEVA YORK - MADRID     19.00 HS -  07.10 +1 HS

IBERIA  328      21/MAR/2010.-   MADRID - VALENCIA          12.15 HS  - 13.10  HS 

BROADWAY HOSTEL

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ENTRADA DIA 13/MAR.-  SALIDA DIA 20/MAR.

PRECIO EN HABITACIONES DOBLE POR PERSONA ............................................ 1433.-€

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PRECIO EN HABITACIONES MULTIPLES POR PERSONA...................................... 1001.-€ 

(HABITACIONES DE 4 A 8 PERSONAS EN LITERAS) BAÑO COMPARTIDO.

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EL PRECIO INCLUYE :

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AVION LINEA REGULAR (IBERIA). SALIDA DE VALENCIA Y REGRESO A VALENCIA.

TAXAS AEROPUERTO 

HOTEL O HOSTEL. 7 NOCHES EN REGIMEN DE SOLO ALOJAMIENTO.

TRASLADOS AEROPUERTO / HOTEL /AEROPUERTO.

VISITA ALTO Y BAJO MANHATTAN CON BUS Y GUIA LOCAL

SEGURO DE VIAJE CON COBERTURA DE GTOS DE ANULACION.

NOTA: ESTE PRESUPUESTO ESTA REALIZADO PARA UN  GRUPO DE 40 PERSONAS. 

 If you are interested, send us an email with your details
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Thanks
eventeoivalencia at gmail.com

Review of a place

1. The Almoina Museum
2.Tarrazu  Bar
3. The Kaf Café
4. Casa Tony

When the wall began to crumble

Today the world is celebrating the day the Berlin Wall began to crumble. I remember I was doing a course for theatre directors with an eastern German director called Konrad Zschiedrich, who was then in Valencia. I had asked him about the wall before it crumbled and he had said that there were too many differences that made the reunion of the two Germanies impossible. The main one being the economy: too many differences would make it too expensive for the West. Well, tow days later, there was no wall. Berlin had become one.

The fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989 signaled the beginning of the end of communism in Europe and the beginning of a new era. No one could anticipate the state of affairs today. The 28-mile-long Berlin Wall stood as a border between East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Even today the remains are still impressive.

As things are told today, everything was ready for a dramatic change because the Berlin citizens were demonstarting on the streets demanding a change. Apparently, the detonator was a misreading of an official document. An inexact translation, a confused border guard and a natural longing for a better life opened a hole in that wall that would eventually end the Cold War. “The Error That Led to Unity” is the title of the article that revealed the details of the hours before the event that changed the face of Western Europe. Read more.

Have a look at the above links from the New York Times and tell us your oppinion.

The French sculptor August Rodin's works in Valencia

this link
Since yesterday Rodin's sculptures can bee seen in Plaza del Ayuntamiento (Valencia). Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) freed sculpture from the repetition of traditional patterns, providing the foundation for greater experimentation in the twentieth century. His popularity is ascribed to his emotion-laden representations of ordinary men and women—to his ability to find the beauty and pathos in the human animal. His most popular works, such as The Kiss and The Thinker, are widely used outside the fine arts as symbols of human emotion and character. Don't miss the open air exhibition! Tell us what you think.

The linguist Chomsky condemns the Afhghan war in an interview

Have your say. Watch this video in which host, Stephen Sackur, asks tough questions, getting behind the surface that make the news - from international political leaders to entertainers; from corporate decision-makers to ordinary individuals facing huge challenges.