Women’s rights is a topic of great significance to me, hence in the following blogpost I would like to delve into the “International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women (& Girls)”, its background and the underlying status quo.Globally, an estimated 736 million women, almost a third of women aged 15 or older have been subjected to abuse.
The adverse effects of this globally embedded phenomena impact girls and women across all stages of their life. For instance, early-set psychological trauma, and health consequences disadvantage girls in their primary education, snowballing down the line to restricting their job prospects in the future.
During 1993 the United Nations issued a Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against women defining violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.”
Devastatingly, the rates of anxiety disorders, HIV, depression are more prevalent in women who have experienced violence. By the same token, “fewer than 40 per cent of the women who experience violence seek help of any sort.”
Humanitarian action is at the heart of UNICEF’s work, most recently a year-long campaign initiated in 2020, was launched to sensitize and educate the general public about Gender-Based Violence, its scarring of children and adolescents, in efforts to denature patterns of scrutiny towards girls and women. Hence, dismantling social norms that encourage violence against women and girls, will bridge gender inequality gaps and yield more economic and social prosperity to communities.
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