Expert Group Meeting: Prevention of violence against women and girls
In accordance with its multi-year programme of work for 2010-2014, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will consider ‘Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls” as its priority theme during its fifty-seventh session in 2013.
In order to contribute to a full understanding of the issue and to assist the Commission in its deliberations, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), in collaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization (WHO), will convene an Expert Group Meeting on prevention of violence against women and girls, at Bangkok, Thailand, from 17 to 20 September 2012.
The meeting will explore a wide range of strategies and emerging practices in preventing violence against women and girls and will focus on the following critical areas:
- Legal and policy reforms
- Changing the culture, work environment and practices of private and public sectors
- Awareness-raising and mobilization
- Engaging groups and working with individuals
- Educational institutions and programmes
- Promoting public safety
- Addressing associated factors that exacerbate or intensify violence against women
- Research, monitoring and evaluation
For more information
Final report
- Report of the Expert Group Meeting on Prevention of Violence against Women and Girls
- Video clips with the experts’ perspectives on prevention of violence against women and girls
Background papers
- Lara Fergus, Australia
Prevention of violence against women and girls
Expert papers
- Nandita Bhatla, International Center for Research on Women, Asia-Pacific
Shaping norms when they form: Investing in Primary Prevention of Gender-based Violence through working with children in schools - Fatuma Chege, Kenyatta University, Kenya
Preventing Violence against Women Students Everywhere - Mallika Dutt, Founder, President, and CEO of Breakthrough
Social mobilization campaigns - Margareta Grape, Representative to the United Nations, Ecumenical UN Office, World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland
The Role of Faith Based Organisations in a Strategy to Eliminate Violence Against Women and Girls - Yasmeen Hassan, Global Director, EQUALITY NOW
Laws and legal systems as an essential strategy to prevent violence against women and girls - Lori L. Heise, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Gender Violence and Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
What Works to Prevent Partner Violence: An Evidence Overview - Henriette Jansen, Independent consultant on violence against women
Prevalence surveys on violence against women Challenges around indicators, data collection and use - Marai Larasi, MBE, Joint Chair of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, UK and Director of Imkaan, UK
Media as a Site to Prevent Violence against Girls and Women - Molly Melching, Tostan, Senegal
Creating Social Norms to Prevent Violence against Girls and Women - Lori Michau, Co-Director, Raising Voices, Uganda
Community Mobilization: Preventing Partner Violence by Changing Social Norms - Tatiana Moura, Executive Director Promundo, Brazil
Principles of replication and scaling up of interventions for effective primary prevention of violence against women with young people A Case Study of Promundo’s Programs H and M - Hibaaq Osman, Founder and CEO, Karama, Cairo, Egypt
Democracy without Women is Hypocrisy: Violence against Women in the Arab Region in all its Forms and Approaches to Mitigation in the Context of the Arab Uprisings - Dean Peacock, Director Sonke Gender Justice Network and Co-Chair MenEngage Alliance, South Africa & Gary Barker Director Promundo-US, Co-Chair MenEngage Alliance, USA
Working with men and boys to promote gender equality: A review of the field and emerging approaches - Dr. Dubravka Simonovic, CEDAW Committee member
International framework on violence against women with focus on the CEDAW
Observer papers
- Partners for Prevention (P4P), Asia-Pacific
Ways forward for enhancing prevention: reflections from regional level