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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Stop Violence
Against Women
Violence against women is often ignored and rarely punished
Women and girls suffer disproportionately from violence - both in peace and in war, at the hands of the state, the community and the family.
A life free from
violence is a basic human right
From the home to the conflict zone, violence against women must stop.
Amnesty International's campaign to Stop Violence Against Women:
- Pushes for the implementation
of existing laws that guarantee access to justice and services for women
subjected to violence including rape and other forms of sexual violence
- Calls for new laws to be
enacted that will protect women's human rights
- Demands an end to laws that
discriminate against women
- Urges the ending of violence
against women perpetrated by a state and its agents
- Works to empower women
Featured Issues
Violence
against women perpetrated by a state and its agents
Despite
the obligation of the states to act with due diligence to prevent violence
against women - violence against women and girls in many societies is met with
governmental silence or apathy or
Empowerment
of women
Despite
the associated risks and difficulties, activists around the world, men and
women, campaign to confront discrimination and impunity and to protect and
uphold the rights of women.
Implementation
of existing laws on rape and sexual violence
Violence
against women and girls is a human rights scandal, yet in many societies it is
met with governmental silence or apathy or plain lack of interest.
Latest News and
Updates
Hungary
to introduce protocol for rape victims and survivors
26 December 2007
The
government of Hungary has agreed to develop a protocol for dealing with victims
and survivors of sexual violence in the home.
Breakthrough
in battle for justice for ‘comfort women’
21 December 2007
A
new resolution on survivors of Japan’s military sexual slavery system urges the
Japanese government to acknowledge, apologize and compensate the victims.
Ugandan
justice system failing survivors of sexual violence
13 December 2007
The
justice system in Uganda is failing women and girls who have faced sexual
violence.
Macedonia:
Amnesty International launches report on double discrimination against Romani
women and girls
4 December 2007
Media
Advisory: Amnesty
International will present its report Little by little we women have learned
our rights: the Macedonian government's failure to uphold the rights of Romani
women and girls, focusing on the double discrimination that Romani women
in Macedonia suffer on the grounds of their gender and their ethnicity.
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