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Bookmark or Share- Gender-Based Violence (Violence Against Women and Girls) - World Bank GroupGender-based violence (GBV) or violence against women and girls (VAWG), is a global pandemic that affects 1 in 3 women in their lifetime. The numbers are staggering: 35% of women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence.
- Gender-based violence - United Nations Population FundUNFPA works to comprehensively address gender-based violence across the continuum of humanitarian, development and peace-responsive actions in more than 150 countries and territories around the world. In 2022 alone, UNFPA invested more than $454 million in eliminating gender-based violence and harmful practices.
- Gender-based violence against women and girls | OHCHRFraming gender-based violence against women as a human rights violation implies an important conceptual shift. It means recognizing that women are not exposed to violence by accident, or because of an in-born vulnerability. Instead, violence is the result of structural, deep-rooted discrimination, which the state has an obligation to address.
- What is Gender-Based Violence? | Wilson CenterGender-based violence is a global pandemic that impacts the lives of one in three women worldwide. Domestic violence is the most common type of GBV, impacting one in four women. But violence takes many forms, including: Femicide, the killing of a woman because of her gender. Domestic violence, including familiar and intimate partner violence.
- Release of the National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence: Strategies ...Gender-based violence is a public safety and public health crisis, affecting urban, suburban, rural, and Tribal communities in the United States. It is experienced by individuals of all...
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