There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We know that the most dangerous places in the world are more often than not the most dangerous places for women, where women are denied their rights and oppressed. These are the places that are unstable and where extremism often takes hold.
All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.
Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.
Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.
The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.
Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.
I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.