UN plan to combat violence against women

The United Nations after two weeks of sometimes difficult negotiations adopted a plan to violence against women and girls to fight. They ignored strong objections of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, who argued that the plan clashes with Islamic principles and the family wants to destroy.

After the plan of seventeen pages was adopted by 131 countries, said the head of the UN Office for Women, Michelle Bachelet, a historical document, which sets standards for global action to “one of the grossest violations of human rights , violence against women and girls, do stop.

“People around the world were expecting action, and we have not forsaken,” said Bachelet.

Wednesday was the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood sailed against the draft plan, because the sexual freedoms and the right to abortion for women would advocate. She named the title, on eliminating and preventing all forms of violence against women and girls, ‘misleading’. Egypt proposed an addition to the text which says that each country is sovereign and the plan according to their own laws and customs may carry. Many countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia resist this. In the final text, all countries are urged “all forms of violence against women and girls to condemn and refrain from any appeal to custom, tradition or religious consideration to their obligations in relation to these to avoid elimination.

Equally feared that Egypt would not agree that the required consensus lacking, but to the surprise and relief of the majority of the delegates and spectators voted the head of the Egyptian delegation, Mervat Tallawy, yet with the text.

“International solidarity is needed to strengthen the position of women and regressive mood in the developing countries or developed, or in the Middle East in particular, to prevent,” said Tallawy afterwards against journalists. “It is a global wave of conservatism, of oppression against women, and this document is a message that if we can agree together and pool our resources, we have a powerful wave against against this conservatism can form.”

Tallawy said also to have transferred to the Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, who comes from the Muslim Brotherhood. “I believe in the case of women. I take no money from the government. I work voluntarily. If they want to kick me out they go ahead. But I will not change my faith in women. Women are the slaves of this time. This is unacceptable, especially in our region. ”

Several Islamic and Catholic countries, such as Iran, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Holy See, Honduras, expressed reservations about parts of the text, but in the end it was only Libya that took away, without blocking the consensus.

UN plan to combat violence against women