News | While the pastime of counting dead women did not change in the last decade, what started a real change of behaviour and accountability was the MeToo movement, writes Gayle Edmunds
On the Valentine’s Day of February 14 2013, people around the world held dance actions to demand an end to violence against women and girls. It was also the morning Oscar Pistorius murdered Reeva Steenkamp.
That was a mere 12 days after South Africa had been rocked by the unbelievably savage murder of 17-year-old Anene Booysen in Bredasdorp. Two months earlier, on December 16 2012, India’s rape culture had been thrown into the spotlight after the equally savage gang rape of Jyoti Singh on a bus.
While the magnitude of the problem came as no surprise to the world’s women, it started gathering momentum – starting with Hollywood. The first celebrity trial and first guilty verdict for sexual assault in the #MeToo aftermath was that of former actor Bill Cosby. He was found guilty in 2018 of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand.
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