Deputy Speaker, I move without notice:
That the House - 1) notes that the United Nations General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women;
2) recalls that this date came about as a result of the brutal assassination in 1960 of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, who opposed the Dominican ruler Rafael Trujillo;
3) acknowledges that millions of women and girls are assaulted, beaten, raped, mutilated and murdered in South Africa and around the world;
4) believes that through united actions, we can challenge and end this violent behaviour against women and young girls; and
5) urges Government, civil society and all South Africans to organise activities designed to raise public awareness of the problem on that day.
Agreed to.