News

How to be a man: Bolivian men and boys work to eliminate gender-based violence

Boys and men are challenging ideas about masculinity and dominance over women, helping to address Bolivia's high rates of violence against women. © UNFPA Bolivia
  • 22 December 2014
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Statement

Message of the Executive Director on the Occasion of the International Human Rights Day

10 December 2014

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Resources

"Wife-sharing" haunts Indian villages as girls decline - Yahoo!

Resource date: 2011

Author: UNFPA

Publisher: UNFPA

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News

Ending violence and discrimination against women: A call to action

Jyotsna Phulmali with her daughter in Maharashtra, India. Ms. Phulmali left an abusive husband when her daughter was still an infant. Changing attitudes about women and promoting gender equality will be essential to ending violence against women. © UNICEF/INDA2013-00249/Singh
  • 25 November 2014
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Roundtable on UNFPA’s work towards the elimination of Gender-Based Violence

20 September 2013

United Nations Headquarters, New York

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Publication

Initiating the Multi-Stakeholder Joint Programme on Violence Against Women

A Review of the Processes and Some Key Interim Lessons Learned

Number of pages: 44

Publication date: 06 Nov 2011

Publisher: UNFPA and UN Women

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Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting video

Published on: 24/02/2010

Examines the practice of FGM/C and strategies employed by UNFPA and UNICEF to encourage communities to abandon it. The two agencies, working closely with governments, NGOs, religious leaders and small community groups, aim to bring about an end to the practice.

Healing the Wounds of War in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Published on: 04/12/2010

The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina may have ended 15 years ago, but for some 20,000 women, the legacy of wartime rape lives on. Women of all ethnic groups are still trying to cope with the psychological effects of violence perpetrated against them.

UNFPA Maldives' Campaign Against Domestic Violence

Published on: 24/01/2011

UNFPA Maldives' Campaign Against Domestic Violence

Nepal Commits to Women's Post-conflict Support and Participation

Published on: 17/03/2011

Nepal has developed an action plan to support women and girls affected by civil conflict and involve women in peacebuilding, as urged  by the UN Security Council in Resolutions 1325 and 1820.

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