INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ...

"“Not until the half of our population represented by women and girls can live free from fear, violence and everyday insecurity, can we truly say we live in a fair and equal world." — UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

Why We Must Eliminate Violence Against Women..
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations in our world today remains largely unreported due to the impunity, silence, stigma and shame surrounding it.
In general terms, it manifests itself in physical, sexual and psychological forms, encompassing:

# Intimate partner violence (battering, psychological abuse, marital rape, femicide)

# Sexual violence and harassment (rape, forced sexual acts, unwanted sexual advances, child sexual abuse, forced marriage, street harassment, stalking, cyber- harassment)

# Human trafficking (slavery, sexual exploitation)

# Female genital mutilation; and

# Child marriage.