Citation:
Women: for a life without violence. Latinamerica press. 2006;38 (7).
Date Published:
04/19Abstract:
http://lapress.org/informes.asp?inf=3
Violence against women is the cruelest manifestation of gender-based discrimination and inequality, and despite numerous international agreements to eradicate it, the trend has continued, ever more bloodily, fueled by a patriarchal society in which women are the undervalued sex.
“The continuation of violence against women in the 21st century is inconceivable and unacceptable,” says Célia Leão, a state deputy from São Paulo, Brazil, and a key member of the first Parliamentary Investigation Commission on violence against women in that state in the mid-1990s.
One of society’s greatest challenges is for violence against women to be considered a human rights violation.
ISSN: 0254-203X
See also: Latin America