Some Forms of Violence Against Women and Girls in Tajikistan

INTERACTIVE EXPERT PANEL Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICES TO WOMEN AND GIRLS VICTIMS/SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE

Peace without Security Violence against Women and Girls in Liberia

Liberia's civil wars are often mis­ taken ly perceived as marking the beginning of widespread violence against women and girls (VAWG) in the country. This may derive from a commonly held view that sexual vio­ lence 1 —more than any other single factor—epitomizes the atrocities committed throughout the 14 years of civil conflict, during which rape was widely used as a 'weapon of war' (Omanyondo,...

Violence against women and girls in the Sustainable Development Goals

permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Dear Editor, On 25 September 2015, the 193 member states of the United Nations (UN) unanimously adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 goals and 169 targets aiming to transform the world over the next 15 years. These goals are aimed to eliminate poverty, d...

Prevention of violence against women and girls: lessons from practice.

This Series paper describes programming to prevent violence against women and girls, and emphasises the importance of systematic, sustained programming across the social ecology (ie, the delicate equilibrium of interacting social, institutional, cultural, and political contexts of people's lives) to transform gender-power inequalities. Effective prevention policy and programming is founded on f...

Characteristics of sexual violence against adolescent girls and adult women

BACKGROUND Sexual violence is considered a serious violation of human rights which affects mainly young women and adolescents. There is little information about the conditions under which sexual offences occur. We evaluated characteristics of sexual violence against adolescent girls and adult women. METHOD This is a quantitative, retrospective, descriptive study of sexual violence against ado...