Embassy Events 2009
Secretary Clinton: “Violence Against Women is Criminal”
1 December 2009
U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton
“Today and every day, women and girls all over the world will face violence simply because they are female. Today, a woman somewhere in the United States will be physically assaulted by her husband. In a remote village on the other side of the world, traffickers will lure a young girl away from her family and sell her into sexual slavery. In towns in every region of the globe, groups of men will harass young women as they attempt to go to school.” On November 25, 2009, U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, issued a special statement to mark the Elimination of Violence Against Women Day. "Violence against women cannot be accepted as 'cultural' -- it is criminal,” she said. “No woman or girl anywhere in the world should have to walk in fear or live under the threat of violence.”