and the beat goes on...amina, a 30 year-old muslim woman from nigeria, was sentenced to be stoned to death for having a child outside of wedlock...moldovan sisters elena and vara were trafficked and forced to work as prostitutes in the united kingdom...an estimated 80% of all pakistani women suffer violence at home, according to the human rights commission of pakistan...
these stories barely represent a fraction of the heinous crimes against women that occur behind closed doors daily...until now, there has never been a consistent approach, that crosses international lines, to not only acknowledge the violence against women and girls but to directly combat it...however, with the introduction of the international violence against women act (i-vawa), the u.s. congress recently set the wheels in motion for a proactive global plan to address such human rights violations...
congress must send a message to the international community that violence against women cannot be tolerated...
peace out <3
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