UN claims insufficient funds for ending violence against women.

UNIFEM, which is the United Nations organisation championing women ’s rights, has said that there are inadequate funds to meet the challenges of ending violence against women, despite the rights and welfare of women being key to the success of the 2015 Millennium goals to end extreme poverty. At the moment UNFEM can only fund one out of every fifteen schemes it considers worthy of funding. This includes fighting against human trafficking as women and girls are the main victims of this crime.
The strategic priorities of UNIFEM include giving women full rights to own land and property, providing them decent employment, including in the informal sector, and ending violence which, “already horrific in times of peace, intensifies during armed conflict, with sexual violence now routinely used as a weapon of war.”
UNIFEM has called for more funds to be allocated to this cause which will address many of the root causes of human trafficking.