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This document presents a global Guidance on A whole school approach to prevent school-related gender-based violence: minimum standards and monitoring framework. The limitations of data collection and monitoring mechanisms around school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) are widely acknowledged. This guide provides a framework to guide policy makers and practitioners in designing school violence prevention programmes and strengthening response actions. The prevention model is based on eight evidence-based standards and is accompanied by a monitoring approach with a set of proposed indicators at school, district and national levels. The goal is to enable implementation strategies to be adapted and monitored in order to improve data collection and accountability around incidents of SRGBV at the school, district and national levels.

This document presents an investigating technology, gender and empowerment, African women and ICTS. In bringing more clarity to the way women exert their agency in relation to the use of ICTs, how gender issues hinder or enhance women’s access to and use of ICTs, how women have accomplished their dreams in relation to ICT use, what they needed in order to get there, what obstacles they faced, and how they managed to overcome their internal and external barriers, the authors contribute to a better understanding of the potentials of ICT use. Being the powerful tools that they are, ICTs deserve serious attention. Not to grant them this attention could result in missed opportunities for women, and risk ICTs reinforcing, unintentionally, women’s discrimination and disempowerment

This document presents a Charter of demands a gendered disaster response plan Learning from the past. This charter was coordinated by UN Women Lebanon, though drafted in full by its signatories and in this represents their words and demands. Feminist activists and women’s rights organisations in Lebanon, signatories to this Charter, are concerned with the human toll of the explosion of the Beirut port which took place on August 4th, 2020. This has come against a background of severe economic hardship, an unprecedented loss in the value of the local currency, spiking unemployment and a degradation of public services, all of which exacerbated by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. We have been reeling from the political system, which is sectarian, patriarchal and corrupt and has oppressed women for decades. Even before the explosion, we were under-represented in national political institutions, comprising only 23% of the workforce, and unable to marry/divorce/inherit the way we want to

This document presents a book on Confronting female genital mutilation. The issue of FGM has always been considered ‘sensitive’ (meaning dangerous), which has deeply affected the way it has been approached and addressed. This chapter tries to find out why and to analyse critically the concepts and visions that have prevailed in the area of FGM with a view to proposing new avenues of reflection.

Ce document présente une recherche-action menée auprès de femmes victimes de violences conjugales et des professionnel-le-s les accompagnant, Cyberviolence conjugale. Cette étude du Centre Hubertine Auclert et de ses partenaires, conduite en 2017-2018 permet de mesurer et de mieux comprendre les cyberviolences subies par les femmes victimes de violences conjugales de la part de leur partenaire (ou ex). Nous avons interrogé les femmes victimes de violences conjugales qui sont accompagnées par des partenaires spécialisés en Île-de-France. Cette étude permet ainsi d’identifier des conseils et stratégies de protection adaptés qui répondent aux besoins et vécu des victimes et de formuler des recommandations en matière d’évolutions législatives ou d’accompagnement.