Violence against women must be stopped, Bianca Jagger tells world leaders

[YoungDemCA]

Discrimination against women persists in “veiled, underhand and unspoken” ways, even in “supposedly egalitarian nations”, the human rights activist Bianca Jagger claimed in last night’s Longford Lecture, sponsored by the Daily Telegraph.

Speaking at Church House, Westminster, Ms Jagger argued that “embedded deep in our cultures still lurks an institutional belief that women are inferior”.

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Ms Jagger said: “Violence against women is caused by deeply entrenched societal norms.

“In some countries discrimination against women is enshrined in law. And it persists in other, supposedly egalitarian nations - veiled and underhand, unspoken.

“We are deluding ourselves if we think we have eradicated discrimination from the so-called developed world.

“I fear that under the surface of our western democratic, egalitarian societies, embedded deep in our cultures, still lurks an institutionalised belief that women are inferior.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/10466903/Violence-against-women-must-be-stopped-Bianca-Jagger-tells-world-leaders.html

[MisterP]

1. and she knows about both violence and US hypocrisy

she *chased down a Salvadoran death squad* in 1981 as they dragged refugees out of Honduras

[chervilant]

2. I wonder if the dearth of responses

to your OP is attributable to the late hour, or to the global misogyny Ms Jagger decries...

[YoungDemCA]

3. Perhaps a little of both?