Saida Mirziyoyeva: «The time has come to criminalize violence in the home»

What are the problems of gender-based violence in the country today?
How to destroy the stereotypes imposed by society in relation to women?
What mechanism is needed in Uzbekistan to combat gender-based violence?

All these and other questions were raised at the International Conference "Institutionalization of struggle against violence. Creating Gender Sensitive Images in the Media".

The conference was attended by Tatiana Valovaya, UN Under-Secretary General and Director General of the UN Office in Geneva, Saida Mirziyoyev, Head of the Communications and Information Policy Sector of the Executive Office of the President, and other international and local experts.