Working to End Violence Against Women and Girls
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Violence against women takes many forms –
physical, sexual, psychological and economic. These forms of violence are interrelated and affect women from before birth to old age. Some types of violence, such as trafficking, cross national boundaries.
Women who experience violence suffer a range of health problems and their ability to participate in public life is diminished. Violence against women harms families and communities across generations and reinforces other violence prevalent in society. Violence against women also impoverishes women, their families, communities and nations. Violence against women is not confined to a specific culture, region or country, or to particular groups of women within a society. The roots of violence against women lie in persistent discrimination against women. more information
Work of the UN WOMEN in the Caribbean to end gender based violence:
Gender-based violence, and in particular violence against women and girls (VAWG) is one of the most common forms of insecurity facing citizens in the Caribbean.
While traditional gendered roles inform male vulnerability to involvement in violence and organized crime, women and girls are made vulnerable to physical and sexual abuse. Citizen Security concerns are therefore manifest differently for men and boys and women and girls
- See more at: http://caribbean.unwomen.org/en/our-work/ending-violence-against-women#sthash.ZxTWztYR.dpuf
More Information:
- 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign
- Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women
- Global Issues - Women
- The World's Women 2015: Trends and Statistics
- The World's Women 2010: Trends and Statistics
Documents
- Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
- Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (A/RES/48/104)
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (A/RES/54/134)
- Violence against women migrant workers (A/C.3/66/L.18)
- Strengthening crime prevention and criminal justice responses to violence against women
(A/RES/65/228) - Trafficking in women and girls (A/RES/65/190)
- The girl child (A/RES/64/145)
- Women in development (A/RES/64/217)
- Eliminating rape and other forms of sexual violence in all their manifestations, including in conflict and related situations (A/RES/62/134)
- Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women(A/RES/62/133)
- Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women (A/RES/61/143)
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences (A/66/215)