14 May 2010 – A top United Nations official has exhorted advertisers to join efforts to stamp out violence against women, calling on the industry to help defy destructive gender stereotypes, a root cause of the scourge.
“The United Nations needs your support in ending one of the most pervasive and brutish challenges of our time, one that affects all people, everywhere,” Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information Kiyo Akasaka said of violence against women.
He told advertising titans at a gathering in Moscow yesterday that up to 70 per cent of women experience violence in their lifetime.
Read more at the UN News Centre
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