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Rape an ‘intolerable cost to society’, must be universally criminalised: UN executive director


November 24, 2019

The United Nations has called for rape — which it has termed “an intolerate cost to society” — to be made universally illegal, noting that “most perpetrators of rape go unreported or unpunished”. A statement by UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women reported that currently “more than half of …

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