Feminism Quote by Chirlane McCray

Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development…

— Zainab Salbi

Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a…

— Ban Ki-moon

All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law.…

— Ban Ki-moon

There is increasing recognition that violence against women is a major barrier to the fulfilment of human rights and a direct challenge to women's…

— Antonio Guterres

Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography,…

— Kofi Annan

I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.

— Eve Ensler

From our perspective, while violence against women is a problem in it of itself, it's also usually an extreme form of treatment of women…

— Neera Tanden

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

— Nicole Kidman

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

— Michelle Bachelet

It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.

— Zainab Salbi

There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.

— Lee Maracle

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

— Samantha Power