25/11/2011 Equality and Non-Discrimination
Strasbourg, 25.11.2011 – The Standing Committee of PACE, meeting in Edinburgh on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, has adopted a declaration that freedom from violence should be the first human right.
“Millions of women and girls in the world have this right violated every day as they are specifically targeted in the context of war and conflicts, trafficked for the purposes of prostitution, subjected to forced and child marriages, marital rape, so-called ‘honour’ crimes, sexual violence, and other forms of physical and psychological violence,” the committee said.