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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.
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Women demonstrate in Firdous Square under the banner of the Organisation for Women's Freedom in Iraq
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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.
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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
