Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Viet Nam

Published on: 01/03/2013

Gender-based violence is a serious problem globally. In Vietnam, according to the National Study on Domestic Violence against Women, 1 in 3 or 34% of ever-married women report at one time they suffered physical or sexual violence from their husbands.

Protecting women post-Haiyan

Published on: 21/06/2014

UNFPA is working with the Philippine National Police to keep women and girls safe after the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan.
 
From December 2013

Resources

Breaking the Silence on Violence against Indigenous Girls, Adolescents and Young Women

Resource date: 2013

Author: UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women, ILO, OSRSG/VAC

Publisher: UNICEF

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Resources

Addressing Gender-Based Violence

Resource date: 2013

Author: UNFPA

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News

In one girl's stand against child marriage, a path forward for development

Nana shakes the hand of Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird after speaking at a high-level panel on child marriage. Photo credit: Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada
  • 29 September 2014
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News

Global summit urges to end sexual violence in conflict

Women who have endured gender-based violence receive counselling and other forms of support in a displacement camp in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo credit: OCHA/Gemma Cortes
  • 10 June 2014
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News

Sound of Silence: Dealing with the Legacy of Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War

Hasija was one of the first women to testify before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in a case of war rape, in 1996. Her hometown of Rakitnica was set ablaze during the war and her family was expelled. Her father and brother did not survive. Photo credit: Armin Smailovic/Sarajevo, 2010
  • 17 March 2014
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News

Building the Future of Africa by Empowering Women and Youth

Ms. Trina S. Haque, Sector Manager for the World Bank Group's Health, Nutrition and Population in West and Central Africa; Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund; and H.E., Ms. Maikibi Kadidiatou Dandobi, Minister of Population, Promotion of Women and Protection of Children of Niger.
  • 11 March 2014
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News

UNFPA and UN Women Launch Joint Global Programme on Essential Services for Women and Girls Subject to Violence

  • 04 December 2013
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Data

SDG Indicator 5.2.1 Intimate Partner Violence

Intimate Partner Violence National Level (%)
<3 3-12 12-22 22-33 >33

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