Joint Consortium on Gender Based Violence
Aiming to address and improve international responses to gender based violence.

Quotes

• Violence against women is a universal phenomenon that persists in all countries of the world, and the perpetrators of that violence are often well known to their victims. Domestic violence in particular continues to be frighteningly common and to be accepted as ‘normal’ within too many societies.

  Yakin Ertürk

  Professor of Sociology and UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women