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Eliminating violence against women remains one of the most serious and urgent challenges of our time. Every one has a responsibility to act when confronted with violence. Each one of us has a duty to support and sustain a political and social environment where violence against women and girls is not tolerated; where friends, family members, neighbors, men and women, intervene to prevent perpetrators to go unpunished.

A panel discussion on this topic will mark the United Nations official observance of International Women's Day on 8 March 2007. The panel will examine good practices and examples of specific solutions to eliminate violence and end impunity from the global to the local levels. The panel discussion will illustrate various dimensions of the problem from perspectives of parliamentarians, law enforcement officials, civil society and the media.