The association, non-profit organization, is committed to combat all forms of gender-based violence and promotes activities related to cultural change, awareness and prevention of the phenomenon of violence against women and girls / i. It was born in 1990 and in 2010 obtained legal recognition.
December is Universal Month for Human Rights. Appropriately enough this month contains International Human Rights Day (Dec. 10th). Honor this time of year by reading and sharing the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, created over 70 years ago this month.
The latest reports estimate up to 3,000 women and children fleeing the violence in northwest Iraq have been captured and are at risk to be trafficked into modern-day forms of enslavement.
