It's time to welcome the efforts of UN Women to protect the rights of women a...

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It's time to welcome the efforts of UN Women to protect the rights of women around the globe. It's time for every member state to open its elections to international monitors, and to increase the UN Democracy Fund. It's time to reinvigorate UN peacekeeping, so that missions have the resources necessary to succeed, and so atrocities like sexual violence are prevented and justice is enforced – because neither dignity nor democracy can thrive without basic security.

PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes:

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

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