Description
To protect women, we must first protect girls. To protect girls from sexual violence, we must understand the specific challenges they face. Quality, disaggregated data plays a crucial role in understanding the drivers, nature, and consequences of violence against girls. We need age-disaggregated data to understand how girls’ experiences of violence change as they grow up and context-specific data to capture the specific nuances of girls’ experiences of violence wherever they are in the world. Together for Girls and our partners* recently launched first-of-its-kind figures on the prevalence of childhood sexual violence, with specific figures on girls’ experiences of sexual violence. This evidence is crucial to showing decision-makers what must be done to keep girls safe and build societies that put them in the best position to lead healthy, fulfilling lives as women. Another critical tool to drive action to protect girls and women is the world’s largest source of data on violence against children, the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys (VACS), which provide critical insights into the lifelong consequences of sexual violence against girls.
Source
https://www.togetherforgirls.org/en/blog/from-data-to-action-protecting-the-next-generation-of-women
Language
English
