Men Have a Responsibility to Tackle Gender-Based Violence

This Human Rights Day (10 December), we should remember the global “shadow pandemic” of gender-based violence; a human rights atrocity that continues to go unchallenged. I call on all men, particularly those in positions of power, to do more to challenge and tackle this injustice.

I believe that gender inequality is the greatest human rights challenge of our time. Progress has been made, but there is still huge work to be done. For example, according to UN Women only 26% of seats in national parliaments worldwide are held by women, and just 28% of managerial positions. Most shockingly of all, nearly one in three women have experienced gender-based violence in their lifetime.

COVID-19 has only made this worse. In the last 12 months alone, UN Women estimates that 245 million women globally have been subjected to sexual or physical violence by an intimate partner.

While these shocking figures highlight the scale of this crisis, we must remember that behind every number is a human being; a woman with her dignity violated and her faith in humanity irreparably scarred.

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Men Have a Responsibility to Tackle Gender-Based Violence