Violence

Dhaka Women's Meeting Calls for War on Sex Crimes

Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 8th, 1999

On January 29, 1999, women's rights activists from around the world called for governments to root out the economic, religious, and cultural factors that lead to the sexual abuse of women and children.

Participants in a three-day international conference in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka said prostitution and other sex-related criminal activity should be the first targets in an intensified battle to shield women and children from rampant degradation.

"Prostitution and sex trafficking are not universal and inevitable aspects of the human condition. They are violations of a woman's human rights and forms of violence against women," Aurora Javate de...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (1999-02-08)

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