Quotes & Sayings About Gender Based Violence

If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence. — Rachel Lloyd

In talking about misogyny and gender-based violence, it would be easy to slip into the conceit that men are the villains. But it's not true. Granted, men are often brutal to women. Yet it is women who routinely manage brothels in poor countries, who ensure that their daughter's genitals are cut, who feed sons before daughters, who take their sons but not their daughters to clinics for vaccination. — Nicholas D. Kristof

With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated. — Jenny Shipley

We are determined to answer evil with GOOD, slavery with FREEDOM, rape with hope!
We are against slavery, rape, beheading, torture, violations of human rights, corruption and misuse of religion! — Widad Akreyi

The use of rape and enslavement as weapons of war MUST END! — Widad Akreyi

Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere. — John F. Kerry

Acknowledging that a woman's right to be safe from a gender-based attack was a "civil right," I believed, was critically important in changing the American consciousness. When a right reaches the status and categorization of a "civil right," it means the nation has arrived at a consensus that is nonnegotiable. Violence against women would no longer be written off ... Once our criminal justice system
at the local, state and federal levels
recognized these as serious and inexcusable crimes, women could stop blaming themselves. — Joe Biden

From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression. — Zainab Salbi