{"id":5485,"date":"2023-11-25T15:40:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T15:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=5485"},"modified":"2023-11-25T16:04:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T16:04:20","slug":"un-chief-gbv-is-not-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/25\/un-chief-gbv-is-not-inevitable\/","title":{"rendered":"UN chief: GBV is Not Inevitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a virtual event to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, commemorated annually on 25 November, UN Women chief Sima Bahous described gender-based violence (GBV) as \u201ca global crisis\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cIn all our own neighbourhoods, there are women and girls living in danger. Around the world, conflict, climate-related natural disasters, food insecurity and human rights violations are exacerbating violence against women\u201d, she said.<br \/>\nAnd according to UN Women, more than 70 per cent have experienced GBV in some crisis settings.<br \/>\nAs UN Secretary-General, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres has said, \u201cViolence against women is not inevitable\u201d. Putting accountability front and centre is essential to challenging cultures of impunity and opening pathways to justice for survivors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed In a virtual event to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, commemorated annually on 25 November, UN Women chief Sima Bahous described gender-based violence (GBV) as \u201ca global crisis\u201d. \u201cIn all our own neighbourhoods, there are women and girls living in danger. Around the world, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5487,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions\/5487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}