RIGHTS:
Women Fight to Put Violence on Global
Agenda
By Monika
Manke
"UNITED NATIONS,
Sep 17 (IPS) - Joyce and Tanya -- two women of
different ages, nationalities, cultures and
religions -- share something: both became victims
of a missing goal.
Combating violence
against women is what Inés Alberdi,
executive director of the U.N. Development Fund for
Women (UNIFEM), calls the missing goal, because it
is not an issue addressed by the U.N.'s Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs).
But it is an issue
with a lot of faces, like Joyce, who was raped
during the post-election violence in Kenya, and
Tanya, who is a survivor of domestic violence in
New York City.
... Even though the
problem is not explicitly addressed by the MDGs,
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon emphasised in his
latest report to the General Assembly that sexual
violence is a human rights issue that poses a
serious obstacle to the consolidation of peace and
the achievement of the broader MDGs."
Read
more about the struggle to add Violence to the
Global Agenda
posted 19 September 2008
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