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UN Independent Experts Call on States to Strengthen the Protection of Women from Violence |
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10 2007
On the occasion of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (25 November), the United Nations published a press release stating that although in recent years several legal and practical instruments have been formulated to make known the scale of violence against women, significant gaps in protection remain a cause for grave concern. Frequently, cultural and religious beliefs impede the application of measures aimed at protecting women from violence.
Moreover, international instruments and strategies developed to address violence against women, which should be used more systematically, have been slow in confronting other aspects of gender-based violence. The UN appealed to the international community, to States, and civil society “to make full use of all existing instruments and mechanisms in a comprehensive fashion” in order to provide protection to women from all form of violence.
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