IWD 2024- Invest in Women: Accelerate progress' our DEMAND for an optional protocol Every one-in-three woman has been beaten or assaulted in her lifetime, and this does not include online/internet violence, sexual harassment and other forms of violence against women. On average, more than 133 women or girls are killed every day by someone in their own family in what is otherwise known as ‘honor killing’. Rach year, 12 million girls under the age of 18 are married off without sufficient education, or skill or consent. Rape remains a widespread and...