Hina Khan Quotes

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'

When we advocate for violence against women to be eliminated on campuses, we say, 'Well, actually, it's not just on campuses we have to worry about.' We might have to worry about high schools. We might have to worry about police precincts and cars. We might have to worry about public housing.

Crimes against women are growing day by day. Despite this, the mindset of our leaders, politicians, or judicial system is not changing.

Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.

Women are totally unsafe in Punjab.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

The supposedly petty sexual harassment that so many women have to endure, from Hollywood studios to the factory floor at Ford, is a national outrage that needs to end. Period.

I feel like acts of violence against women are detestable, and they need to be dealt with, and they are important.

Violence against women is not inevitable.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

I really want to help stop violence toward women.

Hillary Clinton has a strong and powerful voice regarding ending violence against women and girls.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.

I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.

It is the harassers and assaulters who make us 'look bad,' not the women who have every right to expose crimes against them.

Women are routinely demeaned, dismissed, discouraged and assaulted. Too many women's careers are stymied or ended because of harassment and abuse. In politics, where I have worked much of my adult life, this behavior is rampant.

There is increasing recognition that violence against women is a major barrier to the fulfilment of human rights and a direct challenge to women's inclusion and participation in sustainable development and sustaining peace.

I personally believe that violence against women in our society is not going anywhere.