Alda Facio News Today

This was the warning of Aida Facio, former Costa Rican advisor to the United Nations on women's issues.

The Costa Rican Alda Facio spoke on "Women's Human Rights in international protection systems" to around 80 participants via videoconference. Organised by

Relatives of the political prisoners addressed the panel, denouncing the mistreatment and the different types of torture suffered by the prisoners

With daily reports of gruesome killings, sexual violations and the rape of women and children, something must be done to ensure the protection of women and children and what better way than to stop justifying and normalising every shred of patriarchy, writes Irene Charnley