Posts Tagged ‘women’
Posted on July 24, 2008 - by Frank
UN & Fiji Work Together to Find Ways to End Violence Against Women
Fiji along with 9 other countries has been selected for a United Nations pilot project on Violence Against Women. Participants from government, civil society, including faith based organizations, the UN and AusAid are at a three day workshop, which is in the final day today, to deliberate on a report on Fiji with regard to this issue; and the way forward.
By 2010, the UN intends to have established joint programming on violence against women through pilot programmes in 10 countries. A Task Force has been set up following the UN Secretary-General’s in-depth study on Violence against Women mandated by the UN General Assembly resolution 58/185. They will provide enhanced support to national level efforts under a multi-stakeholder joint programming framework that will involve governments, civil societies, UN agencies, and donors.
Posted on July 17, 2008 - by Frank
Rape as a Method of Warfare
Often in war times, woman, children and the elderly are abused and mistreated. Seen as the weakest in society, they make easy targets and the crimes committed against them amount to crimes against humanity.
Sexual violence against females, both young and old, is a dark and often unspoken method used in many current war situations. Darfur has helped to highlight this situation, being the biggest case of rape being used as a systematic weapon of warfare, ever.
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