However, an increase in the rate of reporting does not necessarily mean that violence against women and girls is increasing. Under the Me Too movement, for example, hundreds of thousands of people reported online having been sexually harassed or assaulted. Social media is playing a major role in raising global awareness of the scale of abuse faced by women and girls at home, school, work, on public transport, in the entertainment industry – and even at high profile events such as UN climate negotiations. With new communication technologies, violence against women and girls is reported more frequently, with many high-profile cases in the media. Has violence against women and girls increased since the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action?
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