Guyana: Calling Violence Against Women by Name  · Global Voices
Janine Mendes-Franco

CODE RED “felt very frustrated yesterday when someone told [her] that to say ‘violence against women’ is discriminatory, that it should be called ‘relationship violence'”, explaining: “There are a range of gendered ways in which women are targeted for violence, not all of which are ‘domestic’.  Erasing the language feminists have invented to describe the harms women disproportionately face is an attempt at silencing women.”