Women and girls hardly ever fight the world's wars, but they often suffer the most. Increasingly, they are the direct targets of fighting, when sexual violence is deliberately used as a tactic of warfare.
Every day children, often young, are thrown into the street and left to their miserable fate. They are often their own parents who drove them from home by accusing them of witchcraft.
The Georgia Chapter of the US Committee for UNIFEM (UNIFEM-USNC) will walk in beautiful Piedmont Park on Saturday, June 5, to raise funds and awareness for the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women.
In May 2006, over 45 women were arrested without explanation in San Salvador Atenco, Mexico. Many were subjected to physical, psychological and sexual violence by the police officers who arrested them and then held in prison for days before being released on bail.
