Despite the associated risks and difficulties, activists around the world, men and women, campaign to confront discrimination and impunity and to protect and uphold the rights of women.
Violence against women and girls is a human rights scandal; from the bedroom to the battlefield, from the schoolyard to the work place, women and girls are at risk from rape and other forms of sexual
Despite the obligation of the states to act with due diligence to prevent violence against women - violence against women and girls in many societies is met with governmental silence or apathy or lack of interest.
