1. Gender Violence - A Human Rights Violation
... 244-5; Stephenson 1995). The Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies developed in 1985 identified reducing violence against women as a basic strategy for addressing the issue of peace (Report of Secretary General 1995: 125). In 1990, the UN's Economic and Social Council adopted a resolution recommended by the Commission on the ... political prisoners, this was a big change. In 2003, the General Assembly of the UN asked the Secretary-General to prepare an in-depth study of global violence against women, which was presented to the General Assembly in 2006. This was the first time that the Genera...
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