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Push Forward Act Now to End Violence Against Women and Girls — Global Issues


  • Idea by Sima Ba Hou (United Nation)
  • Associated Press Service

This wake-up call, along with other invaluable initiatives around the world, continues to resonate. Grassroots activists, women’s rights defenders and survivor advocates remind us every day, everywhere.

They’re revealing that level of violence, they’re collecting and shaping statistics, recording attacks, and bringing violence from the shadows to light. Their work is as important as it ever was. They provide us with a way to end this violation of women’s rights.

The work of women’s rights movements and activists is fundamental to accountability and ensures that promises come true over and over again. They are mobilizing and they are very powerful. We celebrate them today.

The evidence is clear. We must urgently invest in strong, autonomous women’s rights organizations to achieve effective solutions.

This lesson was taught to us most recently during the COVID-19 pandemic. Countries with strong feminist movements, stronger democracy, and more women in parliament are the most effective in responding to the rise in gender-based violence, the pandemic in the shadow evening of COVID.

In this field as in others, we often find that when women lead, everyone wins. We all benefit from a more comprehensive and effective response to the challenges we face. We all benefit from more resilient economies and societies.

Alongside these efforts, men must step up and push. They must play their part in the change. They can start where they live. It is an unpleasant truth that for some women and girls, instead of being a safe place, as it should be, home can be deadly.

The latest estimates of the global killing of women present an alarming picture, one made worse by the COVID-19 lockdowns. Our new report, released in conjunction with UNODC, shows that on average, around the world every hour more than five women or girls are killed by someone in their own family.

These deaths are not inevitable. This violence against women need not happen. Tried, tested and proven solutions, and include early intervention, with trained police and judicial services, support, as well as access to support and protection survivor-centered.

I have three calls to action. I believe these are our priorities and essentials. They are the basis on which we can promote and realize our stated commitments to end violence against women and girls.

First, I urge governments and partners around the world to increase funding and long-term support for women’s rights organizations, committing to the Generation Equality Action Coalition on Violence in the World. Gender base and donations to civil society organizations through UN trust fund and support for Outstanding Initiative. The issue of resources and the size of the financial support for this cause do not match the size of the problem or the statements of concern by those in leadership roles.

Second, I ask all of us, in our own way, to fight the retrogression of women’s rights, amplify the voices of feminist movements, and mobilize more people to participate. We can all be advocates and our voices together can drive the change we seek. To do so, we must also ensure the promotion of leadership and the full and equal participation of women and girls at all levels of politics, policy-making and decision-making spaces. determined. Rapid progress towards ending violence against women and girls is just one of the benefits.

Third, I ask for strengthening of protection mechanisms for female human rights defenders and women’s rights activists. No one anywhere has to face violence or harassment for standing up for what is right and calling for what is needed.

We cannot let our resolve to continue “promoting” gender equality falter. Our goal of a world where violence against women and girls is not only condemned but prevented is achievable. By moving forward together, we can achieve it.

Sima Ba Hou Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN Women.

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