‘Just as gender inequality causes and compounds women’s poverty, so too do poverty and marginalisation exacerbate gender inequality. It is a vicious circle that can only be broken by tackling the social norms and attitudes at the root which govern and shape women’s unequal position in society.’
Ending violence against women is possible: a report from the UN
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