Ending violence against women: from words to action/
United Nations. Division for the Advancement of Women.
- New York: United Nations, 2007.
- xviii, 190 p. 23 cm.
1. Introduction -- Scope of the study -- Methodology -- 2. Overview -- Introduction -- International attention : the women's movement and the United Nations -- Violence against women : a form of discrimination and human rights violation -- Consequences of addressing violence against women as a human rights concern -- Integrating violence against women and expanding the scope of action -- Challenges and obstacles -- 3. The context and causes of violence against women -- Introduction -- The broad context and structural causes of violence against women -- Patriarchy and other relations of dominance and subordination -- Culture and violence against women -- Economic inequalities and violence against women -- Causal and risk factors for violence against women -- Use of violence in conflict resolution -- Doctrines of privacy -- State inaction -- Risk factors for violence -- Implications for state and intergovernmental action. 4. Forms, consequences and costs of violence against women -- Introduction -- Forms and manifestations of violence against women in various settings -- Violence against women within the family -- Intimate partner violence -- Harmful traditional practices -- Violence against women in the community -- Femicide : the gender-based murder of a woman -- Sexual violence by non-partners -- Sexual harassment and violence in the workplace, educational institutions and in sport -- Trafficking in women -- Violence against women perpetrated or condoned by the state -- Custodial violence against women -- Forced sterilization -- Violence against women in armed conflict -- Violence against women and multiple discrimination -- Areas requiring enhanced attention -- Health consequences -- Social and intergenerational impacts -- Economic costs of violence against women. 5. Collection data on violence against women -- Introduction -- Population-based surveys -- Gaps and challenges in population-based data on violence against women -- Types of violence measured -- Ethical and safety issues -- Study design and implementation -- Other sources of data and information on violence against women -- Service-based data -- Health services -- Criminal and civil justice sectors -- Other services -- Gaps and challenges in service-based data on violence against women -- Qualitative data collection -- Evaluation research -- Forms of violence against women that are under-documented -- Femicide -- Sexual violence against women in armed conflict and post-conflict situations -- Trafficking in women and girls -- Sexual harassment and violence in workplaces and schools -- Violence in institutional settings and correctional facilities -- Indicators on violence against women -- Improving data collection on violence against women. 6. The responsibility of the state to address violence against women -- Introduction -- State responsibility -- Addressing violence against women -- Legal and policy framework -- Criminal justice system -- Investigation -- Prosecution and punishment of perpetrators of violence against women -- Remedies for victims of violence against women -- Support services -- Modifying attitudes and behaviour -- Capacity-building and training -- Data and statistics -- Gaps in implementation of international standards at the national level -- Legislation and its implementation -- Training -- Provision of services -- Attitudes and stereotypes -- Data and research -- Actions to be taken by states to meet their international obligations. 7. Promising practices and challenges for implementation -- Introduction -- Promising practices in law -- Guiding principles for promising practices in law and the justice system -- Legal framework -- Enactment of laws -- Implementation of laws -- Monitoring laws -- Periodic review and revision of laws -- Criminal law -- Prosecution and punishment of perpetrators -- Protection of victims' rights -- Civil remedies -- Specialized laws and procedures to address violence against women -- Other areas of law -- The application of international law by national courts -- Promising practices in the provision of services -- Guiding principles for promising practices in the provision of services -- Forms of service provision -- Health services -- Sexual assault centres -- Hotlines and helplines -- Shelters -- Self-help groups and counselling services -- Legal services -- Services for victims of trafficking -- Services for victims/survivors of violence against women during and after armed conflict -- Coordination and multiagency work -- Promising practices in prevention -- Guiding principles of promising practices in prevention -- Prevention strategies -- Advocacy and campaigns -- Community mobilization -- Working with men -- Using the news media and information technology -- Promoting public safety -- Education and capacity-building -- Other prevention strategies -- Challenges for implementation -- Inconsistent efforts and inadequate resources indicating a lack of political will -- Lack of a comprehensive and integrated approach -- Lack of funding -- Failure to end impunity -- The intersection of multiple forms of discrimination -- Lack of evaluation. 8. Conclusion and recommendations -- Conclusion -- End impunity and take action to address violence against women -- Recommendations at the national level -- Secure gender equality and protect women's human rights -- Exercise leadership to end violence against women -- Close the gaps between international standards and national laws, policies and practices -- Strengthen the knowledge base on all forms of violence against women to inform policy and strategy development -- Build and sustain strong multisectoral strategies, coordinated nationally and locally -- Allocate adequate resources and funding -- Recommendations at the international level -- Intergovernmental level -- United Nations system. Tables -- 1. Sexual violence against women in conflict settings -- Boxes -- 1. Definitions of violence against women -- 2. The Beijing Platform for Action -- 3. Prevention and responding to violence against women : the United Nations system-- 4. Guidelines on violence against women by the specialized agencies and other bodies of the United Nations -- 5. Selected instruments of law, policy and practice on violence against women -- 6. Multi-country surveys on violence against women -- 7. Prevalence and incidence -- 8. World Health Organization ethical and safety recommendations for research on domestic violence against women -- 9. Issues that affect the comparability of data on violence against women -- 10. Examples of international and regional jurisprudence on violence against women -- 11. National laws on violence against women -- 12. One-stop centres -- 13. Duluth model of a coordinated community approach to domestic violence -- Annex 1 -- Prevalence of physical assaults on women by a male partner -- Annex 2 -- Costs of violence against women : selected studies generating a monetary estimate of costs.
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Women -- Crimes against. Women -- Crimes against -- Prevention. Women -- Violence against.