I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.
It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.
The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is still a lack of a public outrage.
I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that the solutions come by both listening to the people impacted by the crisis and by learning from historical experiences in other places.
Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.
From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.
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