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UN Women - Violence Against Women Newsletter

UN Women - Violence Against Women Newsletter Issue 10 - January 2011.

UN Report on Violence Against Women, a Global Phenomenon

Violence against women remains widespread across the world, exacerbated by traditions and customary practices that determine the way women are treated in families, places of work and communities, according to a United Nations report unveiled today.

The scourge “is an obstacle to the achievement of the objectives of equality, development and peace,” according to The World’s Women 2010: Trends and Statistics, published by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). More

Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant-Secretary-General for Economic Development

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