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Every year the Women’s Aid Annual Impact Report serves as a harrowing and poignant reminder of the level of domestic violence and abuse against women and children that prevails in homes and relationships across Ireland. Unfortunately, 2023 was no different. This report provides an insight into the coercive and controlling emotional, physical, economic, and sexual abuses inflicted upon women and their children at the hands of current and former intimate partners, whom we supported during just...

Even in the most challenging settings, UNICEF delivers innovative solutions to strengthen availability, accessibility and quality of GBV response services. With the COVID-19 pandemic, UNICEF had to capitalize further on its innovations in order to reach women and girls and help them to seek for help despite the lockdowns and quarantine restrictions enacted by Governments to respond to the pandemic.

This synthesis review aims to draw out some cross-cutting best practices, challenges and lessons from 10 diverse interventions to prevent violence against adolescent girls across various settings. These interventions, each centred on a different form of violence against girls, were funded by the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund). The interventions focused solely on adolescents (both boys and girls) or an adolescent-focused programme was a subcomponent of a wider...

Capturing accurate data on violence against women during crises is challenging, with survivors scattered and the confidentiality of their responses at risk. Taking these challenges into account, UN Women's Regional Office in Asia and the Pacific undertook a study harnessing big data from social media searches and posts, to uncover the discourse on VAW.

The rapidly growing access to and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has resulted in a rise in technology-facilitated violence against women (TF VAW). Yet, accurate, reliable and comparable data on the extent of TF VAW are lacking to effectively inform and monitor targeted policies and programmes.

UN Women teamed up with the National Statistics Office of Georgia (GEOSTAT) to conduct a second nationwide study on violence against women in Georgia in 2022. Building on the initial study in 2017, the 2022 survey significantly expanded its methodology to include additional forms of intimate partner violence, non-partner violence, sexual harassment, stalking, as well as attitudes and social norms related to violence against women. A total of 3,300 women and 1,104 men were interviewed across...

The global database is a unique “one-stop site” for information on the following types of measures undertaken by Governments to address violence against women: Institutional mechanisms; Research and statistical data; Laws; Policies; Budgets; Services; Prevention; Perpetrators programmes; Regional/International initiatives; Monitoring and evaluation

This sixth edition of The World’s Women: Trends and Statistics provides the latest statistics and analysis on the status of women and men at global and regional levels and reviews the progress towards gender equality over the last 20 years. The eight chapters of the report cover several broad policy areas identified in the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, the framework that set the international agenda for improving the status of women. These areas include population and families, health,...

With the aim of galvanizing global action against this all-too-pervasive crime, UNODC and UN Women have joined forces to produce this research paper on the global estimates of gender-related killings of women and girls in the private sphere in 2021. This paper features policy recommendations to support comprehensive and multisectoral approaches to prevent and address gender-related killings and other forms of gender-based violence against women and girls.

With the aim of galvanizing global action against this crime, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and UN Women are publishing this second joint publication with global estimates of gender-related killings of women and girls by an intimate partner or family member, with data from 2022. This publication features policy recommendations to prevent gender-related killings, including through risk assessments and protective measures, the establishment of femicide observatories, the criminalization of...

This brief report conveys key findings from the study “Children and young people bereaved by domestic homicide: Understanding home, relationships and identity,“ with a focus on Australia.

Lessons Learned from Field Research on Violence Against Women in the Solomon Islands and Kiribati

Data visualizations and reports from the latest national violence against women prevalence surveys in the Asia-Pacific region; Resources on violence against women data measurement, analysis and uptake; kNOwVAWdata updates; Real-life stories of the brave and compassionate individuals involved in measuring vitally important, nationally representative data on violence against women.

UNFPA across Asia and the Pacific outlining progress towards our transformative results of zero maternal deaths, zero unmet need for family planning, and zero gender-based violence and harmful practices against girls and women.

UNFPA’s ultimate data source and tracker for population and development data. It combines the newest population data on topics like sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, family planning, maternal health, or gender based violence gathered from a multiple sources.

A website that contains resources about how to support to recognise and reinforce primary prevention efforts in areas of crisis.