US EditionUN Rights Chief Slams Violence Against Women, Calls It ‘a Global Emergency’
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UN rights chief slams violence against women, calls it ‘a global emergency’
The UN rights chief on Friday decried mounting threats to women’s rights worldwide, highlighting rampant femicide and horrific abuse exposed in cases like that of US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Volker Turk denounced “social systems that silence women and girls” allowing powerful men to abuse them with impunity. “Violence against women, including femicide, is a global emergency,” the…
Geneva, Switzerland. Violence against women has become a “global emergency,” warned UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday. In a speech to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the senior official lamented the abuses revealed in scandals such as the case of the sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein or the French woman Gisèle Pelicot. “Violence against women, including femicide, constitutes a global emergency. Some 50,000 women an…
Violence against women has become a "global emergency", warned the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday, deploring in particular the abuses revealed in cases such as those concerning Gisèle Pelicot in France or the American predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Violence Against Women Is a "Global Emergency", Alarmed by the Un High Commissioner for Human Rights
"Such horrific abuses are made possible by social systems that silence women and girls," said Volker Türk, referring in particular to the Epstein case.
Violence against women has become a "global emergency", warns the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, quoted by AFP.
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