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.
… (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 …
… are widely used, also by NGOs working on gender-based violence (GBV). The data retrieved from the database was used … when drafting the national action plan to reduce violenceagainstwomen 2010 – 2015 and provides quality data on femicide in …
… repository for health professionals to safeguard girls against FGM The Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Enhanced … in which the NHS responds to the health needs of girls and women who have had FGM, and to actively support prevention. … and to take the necessary action to safeguard girls against risk. Girl summit and the health response to FGM in …
… Gender equality discussions often engage mainly women, but actually men have a crucial role to play. In … area where men can play a positive role is the struggle against the ultimate form of gender inequality – violenceagainstwomen. To inspire more men to get involved …
… and financial decision making, equality between men and women has taken a turn for the worse, which may show in … on average. The index also includes a satellite domain of violenceagainstwomen. EIGE’s analysis shows that in countries where …