Violation of human rights and a form of discrimination against women including all acts of gender-based violence that result in, or are likely to result in, physical, sexual, psychological or economic harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion, or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.
… In November 2017, the Women’s Political Network (WPN) was established in … women’s political and economic rights and to combat violenceagainstwomen. It has been established in the context of a …
… of the Regional Coordination Board, a regional network of women’s NGOs was established as a Union of Associations, … Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violenceagainstwomen and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention). At …
… Summary Rescuing Women from Modern Day Slavery is a comprehensive step-by-step … for sexual exploitation from their situation of violence and associated poverty and to enable their full … Nations set the context at a global level for the fight against human trafficking. The “EU Strategy towards the …
… A secure online database on gender-based violence There is a growing recognition of the need to have … commitment to, and progress in, addressing violenceagainstwomen through legislation, policy and service development. …
… objective of Swedish gender equality policy is that women and men are to have the same power to shape society and their own lives. One of the 4 sub-goals is that men's violenceagainstwomen must stop. Counteracting men’s violenceagainst …
… of health professionals: the protocol medical care for women and girls with FGM The Model protocol medical care for … and damaging form of child abuse Dutch policy towards violenceagainstwomen (VAW) adopts a gender neutral approach. As a …
… (CIG). In order to characterise, understand and act against FGM, the Ministry of Health has created a health database on this specific type of gender violence, which is a registration system of cases identified … et al. (2015), were to identify the number of girls and women victimised or at risk of excision, where FGM is …