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[260]: 91 The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that violence against women puts an undue burden on health care services, as women who have suffered violence are more likely to need health services and at higher cost, compared to women who have not suffered violence. [102]
Human Rights organisations such as Center for Women's Global Leadership, [20] Unifem, Women Won't Wait, Women for a Change, Women's Aid, and other groups join together to speak out against gender violence and to promote the rights and principles of the declaration. A striking step that was taken to end the violence that women face was launched ...
In 2004, the WHO published its "Multi-country study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women", a study of women's health and domestic violence by surveying over 24,000 women in 10 countries from all regions of the world, which assessed the prevalence and extent of violence against women, particularly violence by intimate partners ...
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women; EGM: prevention of violence against women and girls; Global Implementation Plan to End Violence against Women and Girls; Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence; Convention on the Political Rights of Women; Maternity Protection Convention, 2000
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 2010–2014.
The United Nations General Assembly has designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (Resolution 54/134). [1] The premise of the day is to raise awareness around the world that women are subjected to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence; furthermore, one of the aims of the day is to highlight that the scale and true nature of the ...
A study was conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1997 and determined that 5-20% of lost healthy lives between women aged 15–44 was due to domestic violence. Domestic violence has since been an issue recognized by most UN countries and further studies have been conducted to include specific domestic violence statistics per ...
Women from Lord House Settlement community March in the opening parade for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence. 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 ...