@governmentreport {480881,
	title = {   The Role of Faith Based Organisations in a Strategy to Eliminate Violence Against Women and Girls},
	year = {2012},
	abstract = {http://www.unwomen.org/en/csw/previous-sessions/csw57-2013/preparations/expert-group-meeting
This presentation does not reflect a formal position of the World Council of Churches. It does not have any ambitions to be a scientific contribution to the discussion of the expert group. Instead, my paper is basically a reflection of my own experience of working for thirty-five years in the intersection of faith and politics, both out of Sweden and in the global arena.
It is a scandal that violence against women is still an everyday reality in the lives of hundreds of thousands of women and girls all over the world. The scandal is aggravated by the fact that, more often than not, victims are accused of bringing the violence upon themselves {\textendash} for being disobedient wives or for dressing in a provocative way, or for any number of reasons, all of which aim at pushing the responsibility from the perpetrator to the victim.
The magnitude of the on-going violence against women, in homes, in public spaces, and in wars and conflicts, is well-known and carefully documented. Scientific studies and testimonies from abused women have been presented over the years at conferences, in reports, in media, and in courts of law. No one can say: We did not know.},
	url = {http://www.unwomen.org/en/csw/previous-sessions/csw57-2013/preparations/expert-group-meeting},
	author = {Margareta Grape}
}
