Guide to support the implementation of the Global Women’s Safety Framework in Rural Spaces

Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2019

UN Women, in partnership with Unilever, developed this guide to support the implementation of the “Global Women’s Safety Framework in Rural Spaces” (GWSF). The guide aims to provide support to producers on how to practically implement three main areas of the GWSF, including promising practices, case studies, and tools.

Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces for Women and Girls Global Flagship Initiative: International compendium of practices

Date: Tuesday, January 1, 2019

This compendium of practices illustrates a wide range of strategies, practices, and tools from women’s safety partnerships in cities that form part of UN Women’s Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces for Women and Girls Global Flagship Initiative. Promising practices have been selected from among those that have led to positive outcomes, involve collaborative partnerships, innovative action, and address women’s safety in public spaces with an intersectional approach.

A Global Women’s Safety Framework in Rural Spaces: Informed by experience in the tea sector

Date: Friday, December 7, 2018

The new Global Women’s Safety Framework adapts UN Women’s longstanding initiative on Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces for women and girls through incorporating experience in the tea sector in rural spaces. With its strong focus on prevention of violence against women and girls in public spaces, including harassment, the Framework helps to build a common understanding in the tea sector that is applicable to other commodity sectors in agricultural value chains.

Fourth UN Women Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces Global Leaders’ Forum: Proceedings report

Date: Saturday, December 1, 2018

This report includes the main proceedings of UN Women’s Fourth Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces Global Leaders’ Forum on the theme “Leadership and Catalytic Partnerships: Delivering Integrated Safe City and Public Spaces Programmes with and For All Women and Girls”, co-hosted by the City of Edmonton in October 2018. The report includes insights from diverse speakers, rapporteur reports, key takeaways and participant discussions, good practices and tools, and links to presentations.

Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces: Global results report

Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2017

This report on UN Women’s Global Flagship Programme Initiative, Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces, shares achievements gleaned from various participating city programmes around the world. A series of stories illustrate what authorities, grass-roots women, women’s organizations and other community partners can do as part of a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to prevent and respond to sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence against women and girls in public spaces.

Impact stories and thematic briefs

Date: Thursday, October 5, 2017

The Thematic briefs outline UN Women’s work in key areas, such as Peace and Security, and Economic Empowerment, focusing on solutions and illustrating selected results. The second set of briefs, dubbed Impact stories, illustrate the human impact of a selection of UN Women programmes implemented at the global, regional or national level.

Proceedings Report UN Women's Safe Cities Global Leaders' Forum 2015

Date: Friday, September 11, 2015

The following report includes the main proceedings of UN Women’s Safe Cities Global Leaders’ Forum “Safe Cities for Women and Girls in Action: Implementation Essentials and Key Takeaways”, which was held at the Lalit Hotel, in New Delhi, from 10-12 June, 2015, in commemoration of Beijing+20.