The 33-year-old marathon runner, who lived and educated in northwest Kenya, competed within the latest Olympic Video games in Paris.
Throughout a disagreement on Sunday, Ms. Cheptegei’s boyfriend doused her in petrol and set her alight, inflicting burns throughout 80 per cent of her physique, based on media stories.
A worldwide downside
“Right this moment we be a part of the UN Inhabitants Fund (UNFPA) and UN Women in strongly condemning her violent homicide,” Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-Common, told journalists in New York.
Mr. Dujarric used his day by day media briefing to focus consideration on this “tragic loss of life”, saying it “illustrates a a lot greater downside that’s all too typically ignored.”
Citing figures from UN Girls and the UN Workplace on Medicine and Crime (UNODC), he stated that each 11 minutes on common, a lady or lady is killed by an intimate companion or member of the family someplace on the planet.
“We, in fact, assume that the true numbers are a lot increased,” he stated.
“So, if this briefing lasts half an hour, on common, three girls have change into victims of femicide whereas we’re speaking.”
‘A special world is feasible’
Mr. Dujarric stated gender-based violence (GBV) is without doubt one of the most prevalent human rights violations on the planet, and must be handled as such.
“Because the Secretary-Common as soon as stated, we nonetheless dwell in a male-dominated tradition that leaves girls susceptible by denying them equality in dignity and rights. All of us pay the value: our societies are much less peaceable, our economies much less affluent and our world much less simply. However a distinct world is feasible,” he concluded.
Finish gender-based violence
The pinnacle of the UN company main international efforts to finish AIDS took to social media to voice her condemnation.
UNAIDS Government Director Winnie Byanyima, who’s from Uganda, urged everybody to “rise and finish GBV”, stating that “silence is complicity.”
In mourning the lack of “our nationwide star Olympian”, she additionally condemned “the tradition of male domination & tolerance of violence in opposition to men and women and youngsters”.
In a separate put up, Ms. Byanyima recalled that the athlete ran “to feed her kids, to maintain her mother and father and pay for schooling of nieces & nephews”.
