Operations
Global - gender equality

Empowering Women and Girls When Tackling Drugs and Crime | UNODC

01/03/2018 — Research, Analysis, Report, Study
The present Strategy for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (2018-2021) establishes the first institutional framework on gender equality for the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
  • gender equality
  • empowerment
  • women
  • girls
  • UNODC...
Global - femicide

UNGA Resolution 68/191 (2014) on Taking Action against Gender-related Killing of Women and Girls

11/02/2014 — Landmark Document
In this resolution member states were invited to provide UNODC with information related to best practices and other relevant information related to the investigation and prosecution of gender-related killing of women and girls.
  • femicide
  • resolution
  • General Assembly
  • UNGA
  • best practices...
Global - human rights

Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action

15/09/1995 — Landmark Document
The Platform for Action imagines a world where each woman and girl can exercise her freedoms and choices, and realize all her rights, such as to live free from violence, to go to school, to participate in decisions and to earn equal pay for equal work.
  • Beijing Declaration
  • Platform for Action
  • VAW
  • violence against women...
Global - intimate-partner violence

Explore the Facts: Violence Against Women | UN Women

01/01/2018 — Official Data, Facts, Statistics
This fantastic interactive platform exposes the various forms of abuse that women endure.
  • statistics
  • facts
  • intimate partner violence
  • violence against women...
Global - femicide

Lethal forms of femicide | Small Arms Survey

01/02/2012 — Research, Analysis, Report, Study
This Research Note examines lethal forms of violence against women. It defines femicide and relies on the disaggregated data on femicides produced for the Global Burden of Armed Violence in 2011.
  • femicide
  • data
  • definition
  • research
  • violence
  • ...
Global - gender / sexual orientation

CEDAW General Recommendation No. 35 on Gender-based Violence Against Women

14/07/2017 — Policies and Guidelines
25 years after recommendation No.19 on VAW, this document complements and updates the guidance to States parties and elaborates on the gender-based nature of this form of violence.
  • CEDAW
  • recommendations
  • gender-based violence
  • violence against women...
Global - VAW

White Ribbon Campaign | EIGE

01/01/2018 — Advocacy, Campaign
Men and boys wearing the White Ribbon declare that they will never commit, excuse, or remain silent about men's violence against women. White Ribbon is one of the world’s largest male-led campaigns to end men’s violence against women.
  • campaign
  • white ribbon
  • EIGE
  • violence against women
  • VAW...
Global - VAW

UN Expert on Violence Against Women Urges Worldwide Adoption of Femicide Watch or Gender-related Killings Observatories | OHCHR

07/12/2017 — News
The UN Special Rapporteur on VAW calls for establishing a femicide watch to collect, analyze and review data at the national, regional and global level will galvanize the gathering of information on good practices with a view to protect all women and girls from gender-based violence.
  • Special Rapporteur
  • VAW
  • violence against women
  • femicide watches...
Global - femicide

Resolution on Femicide in the European Union and Latin America EURO-LAT (2014)

29/03/2014 — Jurisprudence
The Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly published in 2014 the "Urgent Resolution on Femicide in the European Union and Latin America" where they recognize that it has not been possible to curb the increase in femicide in Latin America and Europe.
  • femicide
  • Latin America
  • European Parliament
  • EUROLAT
    • ...
Global - femicide

Femicide Volume 8: Abuse and Femicide of the Older Women | ACUNS

01/12/2017 — Research, Analysis, Report, Study
The abuse and femicide of older women is one of the most widespread unpunished crimes. This volume aims to analyse the ways in which women, over the age of 55, are psychologically and physically mistreated around the globe.
  • femicide
  • elderly women
  • older women
  • abuse
  • violence against...
Global - femicide

"Femicide"—The Power of a Name | Diana Russell

01/05/2013 — Femicide Definitions
Sociologist Diana Russell has organized campaigns for decades to end violence against women. In this text she argues that labeling the most extreme form of such violence is essential to combat it. This text is part of the ACUNS Vienna Femicide Report Vol. 1
  • femicide
  • definition
  • campaign
  • Diane Russell
  • combat
    • ...
Global - data

2013 Global Study on Homicide | UNODC

01/01/2018 — Official Data, Facts, Statistics
The Global Study on Homicide 2013 seeks to shed light on the worst of crimes - the "unlawful death purposefully inflicted on a person by another person."
  • data
  • statistics
  • homicide
  • femicide
  • global study
  • ...
Global - femicide

What do we mean by femicide? | Hub Editorial Team

01/01/2018 — Femicide Definitions
In the following, the Hub's Editorial Team provides a first overview of how femicide can be defined.
  • definition
  • femicide
  • categories of femicide
  • history
    • ...
Global - VAW

Comparison of The Istanbul Convention and the CEDAW Framework | Council of Europe

01/01/2018 — Policies and Guidelines
A comparison of key measures to prevent and combat violence against women.
  • Istanbul Convention
  • CEDAW
  • comparison
  • analysis
  • framework...