OMCT's Statement on Violence Against Women to the
Thursday, August 17, 2006
The Violence against Women program of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) made a statement to the United Nation's Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. OMCT acknowledged the role the United Nations has taken in addressing violence against women as a violation that States are accountable for under their human rights commitments. The OMCT pointed out that “despite the progress of the decade following the Beijing Conference, numerous women around the world are still deprived of their right to life or their right to live with dignity.” OMCT asked that the Human Rights Council continue to stress the importance of combating gender based violence by maintaining the current mechanisms and studies, including the role of the Special Rapporteur. OMCT further advocated that, “[i]n the framework of human rights reviews in particular countries, UN mechanisms must serve as examples by focusing on all discriminatory practices towards women that are tolerated or perpetrated by governmental officials, and by strongly condemning them.”
Compiled from: Duarte, Marina, Women and Human Rights - Statement of OMCT to the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights - Item 6.a) of the Agenda, www.omct.org, August 2006.
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