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violence against women

February 26, 2013
Media advisory: UN Women co-sponsored events during the 57th Commission on the Status of Women, 4 – 15 March 2013

It is estimated that up to seven in ten women globally will be beaten, raped, abused, or mutilated in their lifetimes.

January 25, 2013
Gender, violence and the post-2015 framework

Violent attacks on girls and women are nothing new.

October 3, 2009
Inside Rwanda's gender revolution

Last month, Rwanda achieved something no other country had ever done before: produce a legislature in which women outnumber men.