National Coalition to End Child Marriage
End Gender-Violence Zonta Says NO!
US Women at the UNZonta International is an organization pledged to improve the health status of women.
Zonta International calls on governments to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women:
- Zonta International endorses the values expressed in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and focuses on status of women issues according to Articles 1-16 of CEDAW, the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women.
- Every person should have the freedom to make decisions about their bodies and to safely and privately access healthcare.
- Zonta International supports that each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals is integral to sustainable development but promotes particularly Goal No. 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Goal No. 5 seeks, among other things, to:
• eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital
mutilation, and
• ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences
Link to Zonta’s Statement on Reproductive Health:
