(Source: UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva) NAVI PILLAY SAYS ATROCIOUS RAPE AND MURDER SHOWS NEED FOR COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA 11 February 2013 GENEVA (8 February 2013)-The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, expressed Friday her shock and deep sadness at the atrocious rape, mutilation and murder of Anene Booysen, a 17-year-old South African woman, and urged a more comprehensive approach to tackling the "pandemic of sexual violence" affecting tens of thousands of women every year in South Africa. "There is a need for very strong signals to be sent to all rapists that sexual violence is absolutely unacceptable and that they...
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