Vanquishing violence and vulnerability in humanitarian settings
UNAIDS - "Towards intensified African Union–United Nations cooperation for the elimination of sexual and gender-based violence and protecting the health and rights of women and children in humanitarian settings. Background paper for the joint African Union–UNAIDS high-level side event at the 73rd United Nations General Assembly, 24 September 2018.
(...) To seize this moment, the African Union and the United Nations will convene a high-level dialogue at the United Nations General Assembly to press the international community for concerted action on the elimination of sexual and gender-based violence and on protecting the health and rights of women and children in humanitarian settings, in part through global health diplomacy efforts. It will highlight the multisectoral nature of human security, and in particular how sexual exploitation and abuse, gender-based violence and HIV disproportionately affect women and girls in humanitarian settings. It will reinforce the call for more diplomatic support for humanitarian health within the context of conflict prevention, peacebuilding, recovery operations and resilience-building." (Photo: © UNAIDS)