As more women, both young and old, were victimized in recent violence worldwide, UN experts are alarmed by the growing number of incidents of battered children and brutally inflicted women that seem to be unresolved.
Recent U.S. report highlighted the barbaric behavior of the most notorious Congolese rebels mutilating the innocent bodies of women and raping some of the minors.
UN crisis expert Kathleen Cravero said, it is about time to be more vigilant in protecting women in all nations against the abusive acts of violence and free them from the bondage of helplessness.
Cravero, who serves as chairman of the UN Development Programme Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, led a new campaign that will help women and children who have been victims of conflicts and natural disasters to recover. But to sustain this project, Cravero said, the funding should be set to at least $10 million dollars for its global operations, particularly in depressed and remote areas.
This new campaign, she noted, aims to empower women by protecting their rights as individuals, secure them in crises, ensure that justice prevail as they are given guidance and protection from those who harmed them and give them the opportunity to be involved in all means of peace and recovery process in their community.
The UN expert said the heightening of brutality against women was caused by civil war within countries and no longer between countries. The problems of abuse springs from the households of a particular nation or even within the groups in the community, which make it difficult to solve when the victims are hesitant to be open of what are happening to them.
She emphasized sexual and physical violence against women is more prevalent after natural disasters subsided, especially to those who have become homeless and stayed in relocation sites.
Based on her observation, she found that as more people become frustrated of what life is waiting for them after being homeless. Social mores of communal living and healthy interaction are shattered causing most men to look for outlets of their anger and desperation as they rape women.
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UN comes up with yet another report on women abuse and human rights. do you think any one’s interested in knowing what this spineless, good for nothing and sitting on top of the world affairs is saying. It’s not bale to send the peace keepers for the last 4 years to Darfur where it happens on the daily basis with minors, daughters and mothers in front of there brothers and husbands.
”UN crisis expert Kathleen Cravero said, it is about time to be more vigilant in protecting women in all nations against the abusive acts of violence and free them from the bondage of helplessness.”
hey we hear that every day please come up with something new...may be some sort of action.