Violence Against Women And Girls Is One Of The Most Widespread, Persistent And Devastating Human Rights Violations
The post Violence Against Women And Girls Is One Of The Most Widespread, Persistent And Devastating Human Rights Violations appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. On October 3, 2023, Reem Alsalem, U.N. Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls told the United Nations General Assembly that “women and girls continue to be killed on the basis of their sex and gender, rendered more vulnerable to femicide when being women and girls intersect with other grounds or identities.” She added that “these regressions are happening while the world navigates multiple crises of war, climate change, poverty and pandemics that clearly have a gendered impact and affect women and girls unequally.” The U.N. Special Rapporteur’s newly published report explores the nexus between violence against women and girls, nationality laws and statelessness, with a view to assessing the way in which statelessness and gender-discriminatory nationality laws and practices function as a form of violence against women and girls. Commenting on the findings, she indicated that “we have painfully realized that we are nowhere near achieving Sustainable Development Goal 5 [achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls].” A girl puts flowers at an installation of women’s red shoes displayed on the staircase, as a symbol … [+] to denounce violence against women, at Durresi main square in Tirana, on International Women’s Day, on March 8, 2021. (Photo credit: GENT SHKULLAKU/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Violence against women and girls is a pandemic that is far from being addressed. According to the World Health Organization, around 736 million women and girls are subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner or sexual violence from a non-partner. This number has remained largely unchanged over the past decade. Furthermore, reports suggest that younger women and girls remain particularly at risk of such violence, with one in four women aged 15 to 24 suffering violence at the hands of an intimate partner by the time…
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On October 3, 2023, Reem Alsalem, U.N. Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls told the United Nations General Assembly that “women and girls continue to be killed on the basis of their sex and gender, rendered more vulnerable to femicide when being women and girls intersect with other grounds or identities.” She added that “these regressions are happening while the world navigates multiple crises of war, climate change, poverty and pandemics that clearly have a gendered impact and affect women and girls unequally.” The U.N. Special Rapporteur’s newly published report explores the nexus between violence against women and girls, nationality laws and statelessness, with a view to assessing the way in which statelessness and gender-discriminatory nationality laws and practices function as a form of violence against women and girls. Commenting on the findings, she indicated that “we have painfully realized that we are nowhere near achieving Sustainable Development Goal 5 [achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls].” A girl puts flowers at an installation of women’s red shoes displayed on the staircase, as a symbol … [+] to denounce violence against women, at Durresi main square in Tirana, on International Women’s Day, on March 8, 2021. (Photo credit: GENT SHKULLAKU/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Violence against women and girls is a pandemic that is far from being addressed. According to the World Health Organization, around 736 million women and girls are subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner or sexual violence from a non-partner. This number has remained largely unchanged over the past decade. Furthermore, reports suggest that younger women and girls remain particularly at risk of such violence, with one in four women aged 15 to 24 suffering violence at the hands of an intimate partner by the time…
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