Como Secretario General de las Naciones Unidas, defendió los derechos, la salud y la dignidad de las mujeres y las niñas.

“I was sold more than once,” Resalah* told UNFPA . A member of the Yazidi minority, she was abducted by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS or Da’esh), traded as property and subjected to relentless abuse.

Leaders and youth advocates gathered in New York on Tuesday to discuss how to work together to end violence against women and girls, the most prevalent human rights violation in the world. The event, Violence Knows No Borders, was part of the United Nation’s annual Commission on...