Discrimination and violence against women continues around the world

SAY NO UNiTE TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

"Discrimination and violence against women continues around the world, in all societies and regions. Women are harassed, raped, mutilated, beaten or murdered, even in their own homes. In the EU, one in three women has experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15. Outside the EU, girls are prevented from going to school or forced to marry and sexual violence remains a deplorable and widely used tactic of war. Women human rights defenders are threatened and attacked for doing their work."

Read the full statement by the EU HRVP Federica Mogherini and EU Commissioners of Justice, Vĕra Jourová, and International Cooperation, Neven Mimica, ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November 2014.

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Facts and Figures: Ending Violence against Women

According to a 2013 global review of available data, 35 per cent of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence. However ...

http://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/facts-and-figures

Facts and Figures: Ending Violence against Women

Take action to Orange your day

The UN Secretary-General's UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign, managed by UN Women, has proclaimed every 25th of the month as "Orange Day" - a day to take action to raise awareness and ...

http://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/take-action