Tackling Violence against Women. A Worldwide Approach
- Document number
- 2067
- Date
- 2007
- Title
- Tackling Violence against Women. A Worldwide Approach
- Author/publisher
- WOMANKIND Worldwide
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Domestic violence, Prostitution, Rape, Sexual harassment, Women's rights; Women; Control and regulation of prostitution, Protection, Punishable forms of prostitution,
- Summary
- "...Despite recognition within the development community of the urgent need to tackle violence against women, millions of women around the world continue to suffer violence in the home and in the community, with devastating physical, emotional and psychological effects. Advocates for women's rights have campaigned hard over the years to bring the issue of violence against women to the world's attention. As a result of their efforts, a number of States have taken significant steps at the national level towards the eradication of violence against women. However, these steps have primarily focused on improving laws relating to violence against women. Far less has been done to enforce legislation and to tackle the underlying causes of the problem - the imbalance of power between women and men and the way in which gender roles are articulated at all levels of society..."
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