Women’s Rights in the UN Agenda

Victims and Survivors of Sexual Abuse Are Not Alone

“For anybody whose life was suddenly shattered by an act of sexual violence – the trauma, the terror, can shatter you long after one horrible attack. It lingers. You don’t know where to go or who to turn to…”

- President Barack Obama, September 2014

President Obama signed major pieces of legislation during his mandate to protect women’s rights, reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the first legislation he signed into law.

Trump came in and tried to undo what little progress American women have made to ensure their political and civil rights in the last 50 plus years, and impacted women around the world, who relied on international aid to protect their reproductive rights.

Thankfully, President Biden has reversed Trump policies that denied women’s reproductive rights. BBC News

There are many issues pending concerning women’s rights, not only in the US, by no means, but all around the world. There is the question of ageism, not often talked ab…