“UWe join nations around the world in recognizing the resilience of survivors and advocating for building a future where women and girls can live free from violence, fear and abuse,” wrote Joe Biden in a statement released on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Biden highlighted some of his Government’s achievements in this area, such as the National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence, launched last May and which promotes the prevention of abuse and provides victims with resources, such as access to physical and mental health care. and economic security.
The North American President described the violence that women and girls around the world continue to suffer as an “abhorrent abuse of human rights”.
On the day that several campaigns and demonstrations were organized around the world against the violence that women continue to suffer, Biden acknowledged that, “despite all the progress”, this type of phenomenon “continues to cause a lot of pain and injustice to too many people.”
The President also denounced that, especially in conflict zones, countless women and girls suffer at the hands of “perpetrators who commit gender-based violence and use rape as a weapon of war”.
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