These views, and many others, reinforce gender inequality and creates disparity between the sexes, allowing men to have culturally accepted control over women.

The majority of the La Strada countries have initiated legislation on promoting gender equality and combating violence against women. In practice however, it is ...

For this reason, GABRIELA, a national alliance of women's organization in the Philippines, has considered the issue of VAW as one of its core gender-based ...

La Strada Documentation Center · Preventing and eliminating violence against women. United Nations system activities on violence against women · Search.

Efforts to fight FGM in Egypt have been in force for decades but received a boost in profile following the UN. Conference on Population, held in Cairo in 1994.

against women in accordance with international human rights standards, and provides specific recommendations as to how domestic violence and sexual violence.

Apr 30, 2006 · See note 30; and http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw/report.pdf; WHO,. Addressing violence against women and achieving the Millennium ...

The Secretary-General's in-depth study on all forms of violence against women. NGO Contributions. Non-governmental organizations had been invited to submit ...