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Violence against women, gender-based violence

 

Americas

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Addressing violence against women in health policies and protocols in the Americas: A regional status report [2022]

Arab countries

• BMC International Health and Human Rights
  • Prevalence of intimate partner violence against women in the Arab world: a systematic review [2019]

Australia

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • Transforming health settings to address gender-based violence in Australia [2022]

• O&G Magazine
  • Violence against women in Australia [2017]

Brazil

• Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Public health agendas addressing violence against rural women - an analysis of local level health services in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil [2015]

Eastern Mediterranean

• WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
  • COVID-19 and violence against women in the Eastern Mediterranean Region [2020]

Ecuador

• International Journal for Equity in Health
  • “The devil is in the detail”: geographical inequalities of femicides in Ecuador [2021]
  • Prevalence and sociogeographical inequalities of violence against women in Ecuador: a cross-sectional study [2021]

Ethiopia

• UN Women
  • Shelters for Women and Girls who are Survivors of Violence in Ethiopia [2016]

Europe

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Responding to violence against women and children during COVID-19: impact on service provision, strategies and actions in the WHO European Region [2021]

India

• World Health Organization
  • Violence Against Women lessons from hospital interventions in Maharashtra, India [2021]

International

• BMJ
  • Violence against women during covid-19 pandemic restrictions [2020]

• BMJ Global Health
  • Mobile applications addressing violence against women: a systematic review [2020]

• UN Women
  • UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women annual report 2021 [2022]
  • Tackling violence against women and girls in the context of climate change [2022]
  • Safe consultations with survivors of violence against women and girls [2022]
  • Inputs for the Report on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Peace and Security: Submission from UN Women to the UN Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity [2022]
  • Improving the collection and use of administrative data on violence against women [2022]
  • Gender-related killings of women and girls: Improving data to improve responses to femicide/feminicide [2022]
  • Accelerating efforts to tackle online and technology-facilitated violence against women and girls [2022]
  • UN Women impact stories: Ending violence against women [2021]
  • Handbook on gender-responsive police services for women and girls subject to violence [2021]
  • Guidance note: Preventing violence against women in politics [2021]
  • From evidence to action: Tackling gender-based violence against migrant women and girls [2021]
  • COVID-19, gender, and disability checklist: Preventing and addressing gender-based violence against women, girls, and gender non-conforming persons with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic [2021]
  • Violence against women and girls data collection during COVID-19 [2020]
  • RESPECT Women: Preventing violence against women – Implementation package [2020]
  • Brief: COVID-19 and essential services provision for survivors of violence against women and girls [2020]
  • Violence against women migrant workers: Report of the Secretary-General (2019) [2019]
  • Handbook: Addressing violence and harassment against women in the world of work [2019]
  • Violence against women in politics: Expert Group Meeting report and recommendations [2018]
  • Preventing violence against women in elections: A programming guide [2017]

• United Nations
  • Gender Statistics - Violence against Women

• United Nations Population Fund
  • UNFPA Implementation of the Essential Services Package for Women and Girls Subject to Violence: A consultation report [2022]
  • Addressing Gender-Based Violence Across Contexts: Gender-Based Violence Interagency Minimum Standards and the Essential Services Package for Women and Girls Subject to Violence [2022]
  • Technology-facilitated Gender-based Violence: Making All Spaces Safe [2021]
  • Getting to Zero: Mapping UNFPA Leadership on Ending Gender-based Violence [2021]
  • Reporting on Gender-based Violence in Humanitarian Settings: A Journalist's Handbook [2020]
  • The Inter-Agency Minimum Standards for Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies Programming [2019]
  • Essential Services Package for Women and Girls Subject to Violence [2015]

• World Bank
  • Gender Based Violence in Fragile, Conflict, and Violence Situations : Five Key Questions to be Answered [2018]
  • Violence Against Women and Girls : Disaster Risk Management Brief [2015]

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Violence Against Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Comparative Analysis of Population-Based Data from 12 Countries [2012]

Nepal

• Center for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities
  • A Study on Advancing Justice Sector Reform to Address Discrimination and Violence against Women in Four Selected Districts of Nepal [2013]
  • Violence against Marginalized Women in Nepal [2011]

• Globalization and Health
  • Mitigating violence against women and young girls during COVID-19 induced lockdown in Nepal: a wake-up call [2020]

Nigeria

• World Bank
  • Gender-Based Violence : An Analysis of the Implications for the Nigeria for Women Project [2019]

Pakistan

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Gender-based violence in Pakistan and public health measures: a call to action [2022]

Somalia

• BMJ Global Health
  • Lifetime prevalence, correlates and health consequences of gender-based violence victimisation and perpetration among men and women in Somalia [2018]

South Africa

• South African Medical Research Council
  • Research brief: Decrease in Femicide in South Africa: Three National Studies across 18 Years [2022]
  • National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence & Femicide [2020]
  • Development of an Information Management System on Violence Against Women and Children in South Africa [2015]

South Sudan

• Conflict and Health
  • Researching violence against women and girls in South Sudan: ethical and safety considerations and strategies [2019]

Spain

• Gaceta Sanitaria
  • Gender inequality and violence against women in Spain, 2006-2014: towards a civilized society [2016]
  • Applying the WHO recommendations on health-sector response to violence against women to assess the Spanish health system. A mixed methods approach [2014]

Sri Lanka

• World Health Organization
  • Country profile on gender-based violence in Sri Lanka [2018]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Associated Factors of Gender-Based Violence against Women in Sub-Saharan Africa [2021]
  • Gender Based Violence against Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cross-Sectional Studies [2020]

• Systematic Reviews
  • Gender-based violence among female youths in educational institutions of Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2019]

Uganda

• World Health Organization
  • Strengthening the health system response to violence against women in Uganda [2020]

United Kingdom

• Public Health Scotland
  • Gender-based violence and learning disability - Guidance for practitioners [2020]

United States

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Elder Abuse and Women’s Health [2021]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Improving the collection and use of administrative data on violence against women: global technical guidance [2022]
  • Addressing violence against women in pre-service health training: integrating content from the Caring for women subjected to violence curriculum [2022]
  • Violence Against Women Prevalence Estimates, 2018 [2021]
  • Resource package for strengthening countries’ health systems response to violence against women [2021]
  • Caring for women subjected to violence: a WHO curriculum for training health-care providers, revised edition, 2021 [2021]
  • Addressing violence against women in health and multisectoral policies: a global status report [2021]
  • Violence Against Women and Girls: Data Collection during COVID-19 [2020]
  • Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Violence against women [2020]
  • COVID-19 and violence against women [2020]
  • Violence against women: Evidence brief [2019]
  • Respect women: preventing violence against women [2019]
  • Preventing violence against women: a framework for policymakers [2019]
  • WHO: Addressing violence against women: Key achievements and priorities [2018]
  • Strengthening health systems to respond to women subjected to intimate partner violence or sexual violence: A manual for health managers [2017]
  • Global plan of action: health systems address violence against women and girls [2016]
  • Ethical and Safety Recommendations for Intervention Research on Violence Against Women (VAW) [2016]
  • Global and regional estimates of violence against women [2013]
  • 16 Ideas for addressing violence against women in the context of the HIV epidemic [2013]
  • Expert meeting on health-sector responses to violence against women, 17-19 March 2009, Geneva, Switzerland [2010]
  • Addressing violence against women and HIV/AIDS: what works? [2010]
  • Violence against women: Fact sheet
  • Violence against women data
  • Violence against women (Global Health Observatory)
  • Violence against women
  • Global Database on the Prevalence of Violence Against Women

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• Guidelines
  • Violence
  • Sexual violence, sexual abuse, sexual harassment
  • Obstetric violence, mistreatment of women during childbirth
  • Domestic violence, intimate partner violence