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UN
Women’s EVAW - Ending Violence against Women - Cluster is pleased to share
with you two new advocacy resources - “Investing in Gender Equality: Ending
Violence against Women” and “Violence against Women Prevalence Data:
Surveys by Country”.
Investing
in Gender Equality: Ending Violence against Women - presents important
data analysis and graphs from various
countries of the world showing how gender equality and violence against women
are correlated. Countries with greater progress on gender equality, girls' secondary
education, and women’s reproductive health and rights (including maternal
mortality) have lower levels of violence against women. The
tool highlights how advancements in gender equality and reducing violence
against women and girls is a ‘smart’ investment-- central to women's
empowerment with high pay-offs for poverty reduction and development overall.
The rigorous statistical analysis is based on the leading global gender
equality indices and violence against women prevalence surveys, for countries
for which such data was available through 2009. The resource is currently
available at the Virtual Knowledge Centre in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish.
“Violence
against Women Prevalence Data: Surveys by Country” – presents a matrix
with data available for 86 countries on the prevalence of physical and sexual
violence against women, forced sexual initiation and abuse during pregnancy. It
includes data for both lifetime and past-year prevalence, perpetrated by
intimate and/or non-intimate partners. The data is drawn from leading
international surveys: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Reproductive
Health Surveys, Demographic and Health
Surveys, Violence against Women Surveys and the World Health Organization
Multi-Country Study. Other population-based surveys publicly
available through March 2011 were used for countries with no internationally comparable
survey. The matrix is available at the Virtual Knowledge Center (in English).
These
resources will also become available on UN Women’s website. A very special
acknowledgement for the many months of dedicated work by Ms. Sunita Caminha,
Research Specialist on Knowledge Management, for making these products
possible.