
Violence Against Women Fact Sheet
A fact sheet from the World Health Organization about violence against women.
Resources about women and violence, rape, intimate partner violence, and gender based violence.

A fact sheet from the World Health Organization about violence against women.

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Data on violence against women from the UN

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Description Ren Aldridge puts the fight against femicide firmly on

A look at recent technology-facilitated gender based violence
We Need to Do This is the story of Alberta women’s shelters.
Sexual Assault in Canada is the first English-language book in almost two decades to assess the state of sexual assault law and legal practice in Canada.

In this powerful talk, Dr. Christal Badour, a clinical psychologist and trauma expert, explores how rape culture shapes the everyday lives of survivors—and what must change for healing to begin.

We’ve been misinformed about sexual violence and what works to prevent it. Armed with the truth, we have a fighting chance to stop sexual assault — individually, and as a culture. Lynne Marie Wanamaker is the Associate Executive Director of Safe Passage, Inc., Hampshire County’s domestic violence services provider, as well as a founding member of the Empowerment Self Defense Alliance (ESDA).

Dr. Spring Cooper is a professor at CUNY. She experienced cyber sexual assault (revenge porn) starting in 2018. Her experience drove her to research how survivors of cyber sexual assault (CSA) are able to overcome their experiences.

Thriving Through and mensen collaborated to build this resource for people who are supporting a loved one who is experiencing stalking.

The current paper aims to address this gap by employing a multi-layered analytical framework of different misogynist communities.

TEDx talk about the issue of sexual violence as it pertains to Black girls.

A nonprofit providing support to Indigenous women.

Exploring technology safety in the context of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and violence against women.

Dr. Spring Cooper is a professor at CUNY. She experienced cyber sexual assault (revenge porn) starting in 2018. Her experience drove her to research how survivors of cyber sexual assault (CSA) are able to overcome their experiences. She led a project that interviewed survivors of CSA who felt like they had “gotten over” their experience in some way. The results of this research are in this website: what survivors say worked for them, and hopefully some things that will work for you too.

Nuestro enfoque gira alrededor del acompanamiento espacio seguro, prevencion, investigacion social y activismo.

24/7 confidential hotline for Native Americansor Alaska Native victims of abuse.

Creative Interventions was founded to shift education and resources back to families and communities.

Individuals who experience female-perpetrated sexual assault (FPSA) are underrepresented in the sexual victimization literature.

This article provides an overview of the main forms of violence against women and girls, along with other commonly used terms, that any gender equality activist should have in their vocabulary toolkit.

Domestic Abuse Intervention Services (or DAIS) believes that a world free from violence is possible. We work to make Dane County, WI, a safer, more just, more equitable place for people who have experienced domestic violence, their children, and the people who love them.

Activists speak out against violence facing women and girls all over the world.

Leaflet about female circumcision in Malaysia.

Aid organization working to prevent domestic violence.

Studies and current projects underway relating to sexual harassment.

SIHA aims to strengthen the capacities of women’s rights organizations and address women’s subordination and violence against women and girls in the Horn of Africa.

Study showing how and why investing in girls is critical to end child marriage.

Report documents the violations against Syrian women by the parties to the conflict in Syria since 2011.

Works to eliminate all forms of sexual violence and to advocate for the rights and needs of victims of sexual assault.

Provides leadership in preventing and responding to sexual violence.

Educates the policy community about federal laws, legislation and appropriations impacting the fight to end sexual violence.

AEquitas’ mission is to improve the quality of justice in sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking, and human trafficking cases.

Connects with the signatories of the African American Women in Defense of Ourselves proclamation.

A tool that field facilitators can use to approach Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) from a gender perspective in order to increase participants’ understanding of FGM/C as a harmful practice.

Report from a 2016 event that sought to encourage a multi-sectoral approach to ending female genital mutilation/cutting.

Helping end Female Genital Mutilation, provide support to women and girls who are survivors.

Using the law to protect and promote the human rights of women and girls around the world since 1992.

Provides key information to governments, policy-makers, teachers, practitioners and civil society who wish to take concrete action against school-related gender-based violence.

Brings to light the scourge of violence against women in elections.

Paper commissioned by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report as background information to assist in drafting the 2015 report.

Report stimulating discussion and challenging policymakers and educators to view school safety through a gender lens.

Works to promote and advance women’s human rights through working towards a society free from all forms of violence against women.

Report documents similar patterns of sexual violence surrounding the 2017 elections in Kenya.

A unified voice for systemic change to end violence against women.

Study finds that progress on ending violence against women in Canada is stalled by the absence of a coherent national policy and consistent information about the levels of that violence.

Assessment obtains a more comprehensive understanding of the risks that Syrian refugee families — especially women and girls — face in Jordan.

Study of child marriage rates at the district level throughout India.

Study in five Asian countries as part of a programme to address School Related Gender based Violence.

Articles that have been written on Mitu Khurana’s fight to save her twin daughters.

Project committed to shedding light on this atrocity, combatting it, and caring for its survivors.

Coalition united in belief that forced abortion and sexual slavery in China must be stopped.

Resources such as videos, guides, fact sheets, and more.

Stop Telling Women to Smile is an art series by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

Toolkit is intended as an resource tool for activists and organizers, and provides some examples of organizing tools and strategies.
Free online course on Managing Gender-Based Violence Programmes in Emergencies targets new or emerging gender-based violence specialists.

Manager for health managers about IPV.

Advancing dignity, rights, and liberty of immigrant survivors of violence.

Working to eliminate violence against women.

Report presents review of scientific data on the prevalence of two forms of violence against women.

Social justice organization that works to end partner abuse in queer communities.

Information for those wanting to educate themselves and help others on the many issues related to domestic violence.

This publication contains practical steps needed to integrate measures on gender based violence into reproductive health facilities.

Review promotes a human rights based approach to anti-trafficking.

Non-governmental organization working to end human trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of women and children.

Alliance of experienced advocates advancing a human rights-based approach to human trafficking in the United States.

Online resource dedicated to addressing violence against women and girls.

Fighting nonconsensual pornography and other forms of online abuse

Organization whose operations are based on Advocacy, Prevention, Peace building and provision of Direct Services to survivors of Gender Based Violence (GBV).

Organization that provides Native American culturally-specific services to any person harmed by violence.

The tools in this manual are intended to improve data collection efforts on GBV in humanitarian settings.

Report is based on 63 verified and suspected trafficking cases that occurred primarily during 2000-2004.

Report presents the findings of the OSCE-led Survey on the Well-being and Safety of Women, which was implemented in 2018 in countries in South Eastern Europe and Eastern Europe.

A reader on the situation in the region, good practices and the way forward.

Manual offers support for survivors of domestic violence and guidelines for future psychologists, crisis centre staff, and social workers.

Article reviews the literature on the ways in which Black women’s sexual assault disclosure experiences are framed by their unique social space at the margins of society.

Resources and organizations dedicated to helping survivors based on experience, need, and community.

The goal of this study is to promote early identification of domestic minor sex trafficking victims and effective intervention to divert victims away from more trauma.

Examines the acceptability of implementing an empowerment SA self-defense program for adolescent girls on an Indian reservation

Grassroots, women and non-binary people run collective.

An organization working to provide safety and to give a voice to all affected by domestic abuse.
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