22 November 2023 Women
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohamed has called for greater concern successful preventing unit against women and girls, an contented that transcends each borders and cultures.
Such concern is not conscionable applicable but transformative, she said successful a video connection to the authoritative UN commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, held successful New York connected Wednesday.
“Investment successful prevention is to put successful our corporate well-being,” she said. “It means creating conditions wherever women and girls tin thrive, unburdened by the fearfulness of violence.”
A large rights violation
Ms. Mohammed said unit against women is 1 of the astir pervasive quality rights violations, and a planetary nationalist wellness occupation with antagonistic multiplier effects crossed economies, authorities and societies.
Rates are alarmingly high, and further aggravated by conflicts, crises and emergencies.
Global backlash against sex equality is threatening to undo decades of hard-won gains, portion women’s rights are facing much risks than ever before, including online.
Address basal causes
She called for concern that volition code some basal causes and drivers of violence, situation discriminatory norms and practices and beforehand holistic prevention policies and programmes.
Addressing basal causes and drivers requires concern successful information postulation and investigation that volition beryllium utilized to pass argumentation and programming.
“To tackle discriminatory norms and practices, ineligible betterment to heighten equality and advocacy towards behaviour alteration is needed,” she said.
Furthermore, prevention policies and programmes indispensable beryllium multi-sectoral, coordinated and well-resourced, with a semipermanent vision.
Spotlight Initiative
Ms. Mohammed pointed to the Spotlight Initiative, a European Union-UN concern to extremity each unit against women and girls by 2030, arsenic a promising model.
Focus areas see home and household violence, intersexual and gender-based unit (GBV), femicide, and quality trafficking.
She said astir 500 laws and policies person been signed oregon strengthened nether the partnership, immoderate 2.5 cardinal women and girls person accessed GBV services, and thousands of lives person been saved.
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is commemorated annually connected 25 November and marks the commencement of 16 days of activism which reason connected Human Rights Day connected 10 December.
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