| Violence against women
The
Global Coalition on Women and AIDS seeks to:
End violence against women. Violence against women still
occurs in all societies and cultures. Many women and
girls live in daily fear of psychological, physical,
or sexual assault. In many cases women and girls do
not seek advice about HIV because they are afraid this
will spark violent reactions from partners, family members,
and communities. Twelve years ago UN Member States signed
onto the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence
against Women. Now it is time to move from declaration
to action. |
Violence against women is a major human rights and public
health problem worldwide. It increases female vulnerability
to HIV.
One of the most common forms of violence
is that perpetuated against women by intimate partners or
'domestic violence'. Ten to 69 per cent of women globally
report physical abuse by an intimate partner at least once
in their lives, and this is often accompanied by sexual violence.
Domestic violence is one of the leading causes of female injuries
in almost every country in the world according to Human Rights
Watch. It is associate also with a wide range of general,
reproductive and mental health problems.
CONVENING AGENCY
Centre
for Women's Global Leadership
UNIFEM
World Health Organization
RELATED DOCUMENTS
UNAIDS Issue Brief: Stop
Violence Against Women
Information Sheet: Violence
against women must stop
Information Sheet: Violence
against women
Human Rights Watch Backgrounder: Women’s
Rights in the Fight against HIV/AIDS
Backgrounder:
Violence against women and AIDS
Information Brief: Intimate
Partner Violence and HIV/AIDS
Information Brief:
Sexual Violence in Conflict and HIV/AIDS
WHO: World
report on violence and health
Violence against women
Human Rights Watch:
South Africa's efforts to prevent HIV in survivors of sexual
violence
Human Rights Watch:
Domestic violence and women's vulnerability to HIV in Uganda
WHO/ 16 Days of Activism:
Poster
on 'Ending Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS'
WHO Fact sheet: Gender-based
violence
Women's Rights Coalition: The
Right to Survive: Sexual Violence, Women and HIV/AIDS
Report
of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes
and consequences
Amnesty International: It’s
in our hands: Stop violence against women, (or
click here for Summary)
61st session of the Commission
on Human Rights
PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS
UNAIDS Statement to the UN Commission on Human Rights,
asking participants to put women and girls at the heart of
their human rights work.
Statement by Dr. Yakin Ertürk, Special Rapporteur
on violence against women, its causes and consequences |
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