Source: Eyewitness News
Following the recent release of videos on the internet showing a women being stripped and beaten, women and men from countries across Africa attended the 9th Africa Regional Conference on Women Beijing +20 Review in Addis Ababa.

The conference released a statement that vehemently condemns abuse, violence and discrimination towards girls and women across the continent.

The statement also demands an end to acts of injustice and impunity faced by victims and survivors that are being reported in greater numbers across Africa.

The opening statement reads, "They are stripping us, raping us, killing us and it must stop NOW!"

The statement cites cases of abuses inflicted on women and girls starting with expressing its heartbreak over the hundreds of girls abducted by Boko Haram several months ago in Nigeria, as well as the a case of four-year-girl who was raped and subsequently died of acute heart failure as a result in Kenya.

The statement goes on to express their concern over the reports of women being stripped in public in both Kenya and Tanzania, supporting the hundreds who took to the streets in Nairobi earlier this week to take a stand against the violations of women's' bodily integrity and dignity.

"Despite local and global media coverage of the campaign and emerging political will to address the issue, the very next day, another incident of public stripping was reported – a testament to the deeply entrenched culture of impunity that pervades our societies," the statement said.

"It alarms us that whilst we congregate in the 'corridors of power' 20 years after the progressive Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action for Women's Human rights, the women and girls that we have pledged to protect continue to be victimised with impunity."

The world will no longer hear the roar of our silence, but will hear the thunder of our action."