"The women were 14 or younger when they were raped. All were attacked by older men and dropped out of school after discovering they were pregnant."
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US negotiators have found themselves more aligned with countries including Iran, Saudi Arabia and Russia than European nations. These countries consistently seek to undermine agreements on women’s rights at the UN, specifically around reproductive health and rights.
After 10 weekly counselling sessions and 10 skills training workshops, levels of violence against women in targeted villages in these two regions fell from 64% to 34%. The percentage of men who said they were violent fell from 47% to 5%.
Remembering women killed fighting for human rights in 2017
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More than half of the women cited in AWID’s 2017 tribute to female activists were murdered for defending their rights. Among the women killed are those who fought to protect their land from the state and multinational companies, or called out injustices or corruption, or stood up for the rights of lesbian, gay and transexual people. While thousands of men defend human rights, women face particular challenges for their activism. They are targeted for who they are, as women, not just because they are protesting. In countries that view a woman’s role as being in the home, female human rights defenders are more prone to attack than men because they are seen as breaking social norms.