Stop Violence Against Women

SAFE SCHOOLS EVERY GIRL’S RIGHT

Violence against women is often ignored and rarely punished.

Women and girls suffer disproportionately from violence - both in peace and in war, at the hands of the state, the community and the family.

A life free from violence is a basic human right.

From the home to the conflict zone, violence must stop.

A protester uses a megaphone in front of Federal police officers in Oaxaca city's main plaza 

 

Amnesty International’s campaign will:

• Push for the implementation of existing laws that guarantee access to justice and services for survivors of rape and other forms of sexual violence
• Calls for new laws to be enacted that will protect women's human rights
• Demands an end to laws that discriminate against women
• Urge the ending of violence against women perpetrated by a state and its agents
• Work to empower women

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