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www .unwomen .org. The Global Implementation Plan to End Violence Against Women and Girls was a recommendation from the multi-agency Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on the prevention of violence against women and girls. The meeting was convened as part of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women's multi-year programme of work for 2010 ...
e. Violence against women ( VAW ), also known as gender-based violence[ 1][ 2] and sexual and gender-based violence ( SGBV ), [ 3] is violent acts primarily or exclusively committed by men or boys against women or girls. Such violence is often considered a form of hate crime, [ 4] committed against women or girls specifically because they are ...
The Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (abbreviated as DEVAW [1]) was adopted without a vote [2] by the United Nations General Assembly in the 48/104 resolution of 20 December 1993. Contained within it is the recognition of "the urgent need for the universal application to women of the rights and principles with regard to ...
The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women ( CEDAW) is an international treaty adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly . Described as an international bill of rights for women, it was instituted on 3 September 1981 and has been ratified by 189 states. [ 1 ]
Photo: UN Women/Marni Gilbert. The Global 16 Days Campaign is an international campaign to challenge violence against women and girls. [ 1] The campaign runs every year from 25th November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10 December, Human Rights Day. Originally called the "16 Days of Activism Against ...
The global Spotlight Initiative to eliminate violence against women and girls is a United Nations initiative in partnership with the European Union and other partners. It was launched with a seed funding commitment of €500 million from the European Union in 2017 and it is the world’s largest targeted effort to end violence against women and girls.
The 1993 World Conference on Human Rights, which recognised violence against women as a human rights violation, and which contributed to the following UN declaration. [ 1] The 1993 UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women was the first international instrument explicitly defining and addressing violence against women.
Of the 2 million women and girls who experience violence each year, 1.4 million are subjected to domestic abuse, according to the report. In the year ending March 2023, one in every six homicides ...