Ending Violence Against Women Is a Foreign Policy Priority

Posted by Melanne Verveer / February 08, 2010

Young woman runs past UN helicopter in eastern Congon, Nov. 7, 2008. [AP File Photo]

About the Author: Ambassador-at-Large Melanne Verveer serves as director of the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues.

No matter what country women around the world live in, no matter what religion they are, how much money they earn, or what age they are, they have at least one thing in common: They are potential victims of violence. Violence against women is endemic around the globe.

Violence can affect girls and women at every point in their lives, from sex-selective abortion and infanticide, to inadequate healthcare and nutrition given to girls, to genital mutilation, child marriage, rape as a weapon of war,… more »

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