21st June 2019

Ending violence against women and girls to support the achievement of the SDGs – Equality Now remarks to Council of Europe 2019

Key takeaways and recommendations

The following comments were given by Equality Now’s Jacqui Hunt as part of the conference on Women’s Rights at the Crossroads: Strengthening International Co-operation to Close the Gap between Legal Frameworks and their Implementation organized by the Council of Europe in co-operation with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, on its causes and consequences, and with the French Presidency of the Committee of Ministers.

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