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White Ribbon Day was created by a handful of Canadian men in 1991 on the second anniversary of massacre of fourteen women at a Montreal University by a man enraged that women were taking "men's" college subjects. They began the White Ribbon Campaign to urge men to speak out against violence against women.
In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly declared November 25 the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW) and the White Ribbon has become the symbol for the day.
From 2000, the Commonwealth Government Office for Women ran awareness activities on the International Day, and, in 2003, the Australian branch of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, UNIFEM, began a partnership with men and men's organisations to make this a national campaign. Ten thousand white ribbons were distributed in 2003.
By 2009 White Ribbon Day had spread across many countries to commemorate all the women who die in organized male-pattern violence like war, the hundreds of millions of women who are under virtual house arrest from birth till death in the Mideast, the acid attacks, the brutal rapes, the spousal violence and grinding poverty women endure around the globe.