University of Minnesota
Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Human Rights Center, where she is the director of International Women's Rights Action Watch
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Marsha Freeman
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FROM Marsha Freeman
To the Point
Women's Equality: Violence and International Law At this week's 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women , world leaders are pledging gender equality by 2030. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said there's been progress, but he conceded there's not been enough . It's been 20 years since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action established a plan for the global empowerment of women and, despite some progress against legal discrimination, more than a third of the world's women directly experience physical violence. Even where laws have been changed, implementation is lacking — and in some places, advances have been reversed. At this week's session of the Commission, we hear that the mood is one of impatience.
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