Resources

A Review of Processes and Lessons Learned

Resource date: 2011

Author: The Inter-Agency Task Force on Violence Against Women

Publisher: UNFPA, UN Women

Statement

Empowering Adolescent Girls: Ending the Cycle of Violence

09 October 2014

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Empowerment programmes help girls break free of violence

Edna Musada, a Sista2Sista facilitator in Masvingo, Zimbabwe, shows girls how to play gutu, a game she uses to demonstrate the importance of family planning. Photo credit: UNFPA Zimbabwe

09 October 2014

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Human rights, dignity must form cornerstone of future sustainable development

A pregnant woman rests outside the maternity ward at the Kanungu Health Center IV, in Uganda. Photo credit:Tadej Znidarcic

22 September 2014

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Highest-level of emergency declared in Iraq

Women and children await care at a UNFPA-supported maternity clinic in Iraq. Photo credit: UNFPA

19 August 2014

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Violence survivors seek support amid Syrian conflict

Syrian women seeking reproductive health services at the Al-Halbouni clinic in Damascus, Syria. Photo credit: UNFPA Syria

18 July 2014

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Supporting survivors of gender-based violence in war-ravaged Syria

Syrian women participate in a session on gender-based violence and reproductive health issues at the Al-Shagour centre in Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic. Photo credit: UNFPA Syria / Hamada Smesem

26 June 2014

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Violence against women and girls: enough is enough, says UNFPA Head

Displaced women are escorted by peacekeepers as they collect firewood in Sudan, in 2010. The women say they fear being assaulted when they leave their homes. Photo credit: UN Photo/Albert González Farran

25 June 2014

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Global summit urges to end sexual violence in conflict

Women who have endured gender-based violence receive counselling and other forms of support in a displacement camp in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo credit: OCHA/Gemma Cortes

10 June 2014

News

Sound of Silence: Dealing with the Legacy of Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War

Hasija was one of the first women to testify before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in a case of war rape, in 1996. Her hometown of Rakitnica was set ablaze during the war and her family was expelled. Her father and brother did not survive. Photo credit: Armin Smailovic/Sarajevo, 2010

17 March 2014

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