RESPECT Women: Preventing Violence Against Women

RESPECT Women: Preventing Violence Against Women

Geneva (Switzerland): World Health Organization (WHO), 2019.

English

28 p.

WFPELR867

Violence against women and girls remains pervasive across the world, despite significant efforts being made to recognize, eliminate, and prevent it in all its forms. Eliminating violence against women and girls is pivotal to achieving gender equality, women’s empowerment, and the Sustainable Development Goals. Elimination can only be done through prevention. Successful prevention requires: political commitment and leadership, implementing laws and policies that promote gender equality, investing in women’s organizations, allocating resources to prevention, and addressing the multiple forms of discrimination women face daily. Based on the principles of respect and equality, and lessons learned from evidence-based results on what works in preventing violence from occurring and recurring, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Women, in collaboration with ten other UN, bilateral, and multilateral agencies, have developed “RESPECT Women: Preventing violence against women”. This publication provides a comprehensive framework to inform policy makers and implementers about designing, planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating interventions and programmes on preventing and responding to violence against women.

Electronic ed.

ELR 867

eng

MON-017458