'The United Nations has yet to recognize rape in peacetime in legislation, in a resolution, and that’s what we’re fighting for,' she told TIME at Credit Suisse's Women of Impact event in Davos, Switzerland.
. For her work, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Now, she’s taking the fight global.
meeting in Davos, Switzerland. “People from all over the world were writing in saying ‘Hey, I’ve also experienced something similar’ or ‘I’m working on a similar law, can we join forces?’”have set their sights on convincing the U.N. to pass an international sexual assault survivors’ bill of rights. “The United Nations has yet to recognize rape in peacetime in legislation, in a resolution, and that’s what we’re fighting for,” she said. They are awaiting a vote in the next few weeks.
Nguyen founded Rise in 2014 as an effort to fight for survivors of sexual violence after she learned that her own rape kit, with evidence that she had been sexually assaulted, was about to be destroyed. Since then the organization has been instrumental in the passage of 55 unanimous laws, she said.
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