Prevention and response to sexual and gender based violence

Gender sensitive budgets and public security issues include the prevention of gender based violence.

Preventing and responding to gender based violence in armed conflict

Preventing and responding to gender based violence in armed conflict

Women have also been made aware of gender based violence.

General recommendation 19 placed gender based violence within the human rights framework.

Tackling gender based violence must be a key component of prevention strategies.

4.2 Effectiveness of campaigns to prevent, monitor and reduce gender based violence

Note that gender based violence, including domestic violence, plays a particularly insidious role in teaching and perpetuating a culture of violence.

Note that gender based violence, including domestic violence, plays a particularly insidious role in teaching and perpetuating a culture of violence.

4.3 Effectiveness of national institutions to prevent, monitor and reduce gender based violence

Gender sensitive training to enable health care workers to detect and manage the health consequences of gender based violence.

To counter gender based violence, the Inter Agency Standing Committee adopted, in January 2005, a statement of commitment on action to prevent gender based violence, ensure appropriate care for survivors and work towards holding perpetrators accountable.

In some parts of the world, gender based violence has reached near epidemic proportions.

One area where cooperation could go a long way is combating gender based violence.

Rampant sexual and gender based violence remain a reality in a number of contexts.

However it is debatable whether these measures cover all forms of gender based violence .

Socio political violence, including that caused by the armed conflict, seriously affects women's human rights and exacerbates gender based violence.

They distributed a special handbook on Sexual Violence Gender based violence against women refugees to non governmental organisations and lawyers.

UNMISET and the national police have also undertaken joint efforts to address gender based violence.

Noting with grave concern that violence, including gender based violence and violence against children, continues to be deliberately directed against civilian populations in many emergency situations,

Noting also with grave concern that violence, including gender based violence and violence against children, continues to be deliberately directed against civilian populations in many emergency situations,

(a) To take special measures to protect women and girls from gender based violence, in particular rape and other forms of sexual violence

VCT counsellors can also play a role in preventing gender based violence when trained to observe confidentiality and ask questions about partner violence.

18. Urges all Member States to take effective measures to address gender based violence in humanitarian emergencies, and to make all possible efforts to ensure that their laws and institutions are adequate to prevent, promptly investigate and prosecute acts of gender based violence

21. Urges all Member States to take effective measures to address gender based violence in humanitarian emergencies, and to make all possible efforts to ensure that their laws and institutions are adequate to prevent, promptly investigate and prosecute acts of gender based violence

It promised a concerted international response to the scourge of human trafficking, gender based violence and discrimination.

Determined actions would be taken to prevent and combat gender based violence, including sexual exploitation and abuse.

Establish and implement strategies and programmes on prevention and response to gender based violence in armed conflict.

Forced sexual relations are a component of many kinds of gender based violence described in this report.

Delegates expressed the importance of having a strategy to address gender based violence, including female genital mutilation.

More efforts are needed to protect women's rights, including to prevent, document and report on gender based violence.

Arbitrary detentions and police raids constitute an invasion of privacy, stepping up the risk of gender based violence.

Guidelines have been provided for reporting publishing and disseminating materials based on gender discrimination and violence against women.

Ensure that the training curricula of health workers includes comprehensive, mandatory, gender sensitive courses on women's health and human rights, in particular gender based violence.

In addition, given the inadequacy of action in response to gender based violence in conflict and post conflict situations, UNIFEM is strengthening its inter agency advocacy and partnerships in support of a coordinated response to gender based violence that utilizes the comparative advantages of each organization.

9.2 The Committee recalls its general recommendation No. 19 on violence against women, which states that T he definition of discrimination includes gender based violence and that G ender based violence may breach specific provisions of the Convention, regardless of whether those provisions expressly mention violence .

The incidence of sexual and gender based violence has been appallingly high in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In the Sudan, UNDP has supported training programmes for the police and the military on preventing gender based violence.

Given its causes and impact, trafficking in women should be seen as a grave form of gender based violence.

There was an urgent need to put in place legislation against gender based violence and a family law act.

Attention was called to gender based violence as a tool of war and oppression before, during and after conflict.

In 2004, WFP participated in an initiative of the IASC Reference Group on Gender and Humanitarian Assistance aimed at preventing and reducing gender based violence in emergencies.

The Gender Equality Law adopted in Bosnia and Herzegovina defines both direct and indirect discrimination, gender based violence, disturbance and sexual disturbance and introduces sanctions against offenders.

UNHCR is increasing the number of women in leadership positions within camp committees to improve prevention of gender based violence.