Linda Forsberg is an ELCA pastor and a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women this week. The Commission on the Status of Women is an annual gathering that seeks to evaluate progress on gender equality. The 2013 event is exploring the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women.

Click on this image or click here to listen to the Rev. Forsberg discuss why she came to the Commission on the Status of Women, her own experience of violence, and how all individuals — boys and men included — share in one prayer of preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls.

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