WUNRN
EXPERT GROUP MEETING: PREVENTION OF
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN & GIRLS -
Bangkok, Thailand
In accordance with its multi-year programme of work for 2010-2014, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will consider ‘Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls” as its priority theme during its fifty-seventh session in 2013.
BACKGROUND PAPER
- Lara Fergus, Australia
Prevention of violence against women and girls
EXPERT
PAPERS
- Hibaaq Osman, Founder and CEO, Karama, Cairo, Egypt
Democracy without Women is Hypocrisy: Violence against Women in the Arab Region in all its Forms and Approaches to Mitigation in the Context of the Arab Uprisings - Lori L. Heise, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Gender
Violence and Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
What Works to Prevent Partner Violence: An Evidence Overview - Mallika Dutt, Founder, President, and CEO of Breakthrough
Social mobilization campaigns - Marai Larasi, MBE, Joint Chair of the End Violence
Against Women Coalition, UK and Director of Imkaan, UK
Media as a Site to Prevent Violence against Girls and Women - Margareta Grape, Representative to the United Nations,
Ecumenical UN Office, World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland
The Role of Faith Based Organisations in a Strategy to Eliminate Violence Against Women and Girls - Molly Melching, Tostan, Senegal
Creating Social Norms to Prevent Violence against Girls and Women - Principles
of replication and scaling up of interventions for effective primary
prevention of violence against women with young people A Case Study of
Promundo’s Programs H and M
- Yasmeen Hassan, Global Director, EQUALITY NOW
Laws and legal systems as an essential strategy to prevent violence against women and girls
The meeting will explore a wide range of strategies and emerging practices in preventing violence against women and girls and will focus on the following critical areas:
- Legal and policy reforms
- Changing the culture, work environment and practices of
private and public sectors
- Awareness-raising and mobilization
- Engaging groups and working with individuals
- Educational institutions and programmes
- Promoting public safety
- Addressing associated factors that exacerbate or
intensify violence against women
- Research, monitoring and evaluation