{"id":18055,"date":"2022-12-01T18:56:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T18:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=18055"},"modified":"2023-07-03T10:53:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T10:53:08","slug":"un-women-pakistan-and-embassy-of-sweden-celebrates-the-actions-to-end-violence-against-women-in-an-award-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/un-women-pakistan-and-embassy-of-sweden-celebrates-the-actions-to-end-violence-against-women-in-an-award-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Women Pakistan and Embassy of Sweden Celebrates the Actions to End Violence against Women in an Award Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"td_btn td_btn_lg td_shadow_btn\" style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Islamabad, 29 November: UN Women and the Embassy of Sweden organized an Award Ceremony titled, \u201c2021 in Retrospective Celebrating Actions to End Violence Against Women\u201d during 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence Campaign.\u00a0 The aim of the award ceremony was to acknowledge the actions taken on pledges made during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign of 2021.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h5>Last year UN Women Pakistan encouraged stakeholders to make commitments on ending violence against women, and several pledges were received to bridge funding gaps, show political will for calling for an end to violence and ensure essential services for survivors of violence.<\/h5>\n<h5>Ambassador of Sweden, <strong>Henrik Persson<\/strong> in his welcome note said, \u201cWe will never be able to prevent violence against women and girls without engaging men. We need to engage more men who are willing to publicly speak and act to oppose violence against women and girls; and create a ripple effect. Let\u2019s push forward together\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>During the ceremony, UN Women Country Representative <strong>Sharmeela Rassool<\/strong> narrated the story of a teenage girl who was sexually abused and murdered by employee and said, \u201c. Gender-related killings and other forms of violence against women and girls are not inevitable. They can and must be prevented. We have to build and nature a society that does not tolerate any form of violence any where!<\/h5>\n<h5>While talking to audiences, Chief Minister Gilgit Baltistan, <strong>Khalid Khurshid Khan<\/strong> \u201cMy government has set in motion progressive policies to mainstream women and girls in socio economic and political life, so they don\u2019t have to remain silent when they face any type of violence.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Every year in Pakistan, civil society and women\u2019s rights organizations, the UN system, government partners, development partners, universities, private sector, and individuals show solidarity, commitments, and actions during the 16 Days to call for preventing and ending violence against women. Through the joint efforts of all stakeholders, aspires to bring about a safer, more just and violence-free world for all women and girls.<\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>The global 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign started on November 25th until December 10th, 2022, under the theme, \u201cUNiTE! ACTIVISM TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN &amp; GIRLS!\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, 29 November: UN Women and the Embassy of Sweden organized an Award Ceremony titled, \u201c2021 in Retrospective Celebrating Actions to End Violence Against Women\u201d during 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence Campaign.\u00a0 The aim of the award ceremony was to acknowledge the actions taken on pledges made during the 16 Days of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[3027,791,3025,3026,334,1971,129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21298,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055\/revisions\/21298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}