Gender|based violence prevention

What is gender-based violence – and how do we prevent it?

Gender-based violence (GBV) is an umbrella term for harmful acts of abuse perpetrated against a person's will and rooted in a system of unequal power between ...

Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response - USAID

For societies to thrive, all people must have equal rights, be able to safely exercise their own voice, and live free from intimidation, harassment, ...

How to prevent gender-based violence

Prevention is about changing attitudes, gender roles and stereotypes that make violence against women acceptable, and raising awareness of different types of ...

Ten ways to prevent violence against women and girls

To effectively implement gender-based violence prevention laws and policies the police and government ministries need proper training and ...

Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response - State Department

Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response. Preventing and responding to all forms of gender-based violence is a cornerstone of the U.S. government's ...

Tips for Youth to Prevent Gender-Based Violence and Inequality

Tips for Youth to Prevent Gender-Based Violence and Inequality · Educate yourself on the root causes of violence. · Interrupt sexist and discriminatory language ...

How to prevent and respond to gender-based violence

A new thematic note on gender-based violence examines global evidence to draw lessons on what works to address GBV.

Focusing on prevention: Ending violence against women - UN Women

Violence against women and girls is rooted in gender-based discrimination, social norms that accept violence, and gender stereotypes that ...

About Gender-Based Violence

Gender-based violence is harm, or threats to harm, committed against a person(s) based on actual or perceived sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity ...

Prevention of gender-based violence - The Council of Europe

Work to change attitudes, or questioning gender roles and stereotypes that make gender-based violence acceptable in society. This can be done through organising ...

Office of Gender-Based Violence Prevention

The Office of Gender-Based Violence Prevention is part of the County Executive Division of Equity and Social Justice. As a policy office, we address issues ...

Gender-Based Violence Prevention | WISE

WISE is an advocate against all forms of violence against women, including intimate partner violence, dating violence, and domestic violence.

HHS Celebrates One-Year Anniversary of the U.S. National Plan to ...

On May 25, 2023, the White House published the first-ever U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence, a seven-pillar plan that takes a ...

Home - Prevent Gender Based Violence

The Accelerator brings together the GBV prevention movement to set ambitious, game-changing goals, and collectively advocate for governments and donors to ...

10 ways to help end violence against women and girls

Here are six ways we can help prevent gender-based violence. 1. Increase funding to end violence against women and girls.

Release of the National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence

Announcing Grant Awards for the Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership through Alliances Initiative · Launching the HRSA ...

Combatting Gender-Based Violence - Pathfinder International

Combatting Gender-Based Violence · 44%. of women. cannot make their own decisions about their sexual and reproductive health without fear of violence or harm · 27 ...

United States Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based ...

The United States believes that preventing and responding to gender-based violence around the world is a matter of human rights, justice, equity, and equality.

Gender-Based Violence - City of Chicago

Increase capacity and expertise within city departments and sister agencies to address gender-based violence and human trafficking (GBV/HT); Enhance ...

Gender-Based Violence Prevention: A Results-Based Evaluation ...

Gender-Based Violence Prevention: A Results-Based Evaluation Framework. In 2019, with the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency ( ...