Violence against women and girls is a horrific worldwide phenomenon.
It has been estimated that one in three women (35%) of women worldwide have experienced intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.
Intimate partner violence is the most common however other forms of violence include human trafficking, sexual violence including when it is used a s tactic of war and harmful traditional practices such as early forced marriages, female genital mutilation and so called “honor” killings.
Globally, as many as 38% of murders of all women are committed by an intimate partner.
Gender based violence cuts across ethnicity, race, class, religion, education and international borders.
Click here for more information about FAWCO’s Sub-Committee on Ending Violence against Women and Children
Key Links
World Heath Organization Fact Sheet on VAW www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs239/en/
Say No to Violence - Join the orange campaign to fight violence against women www.saynotoviolence.org/
UNITE- UN Secretary General’s Campaign to End Violence against Women www.un.org/en/women/endviolence
UN Women- support for Ending VAW www.unwomen.org/
US Strategy to End Violence against Women and Girls http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/article/2012/08/20120812134584.html#axzz2nkXBZuih
FAWCO joined the undersigned non-governmental organizations in consultative status with ECOSOC, members of the Vienna NGO Committee on the Status of Women, present for the information of and consideration by the participants of the 57th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (March 4th-15th, 2013) the following statement on
Elimination and Prevention of All Forms of...
Football and Trafficking – The World Cup Scandal
By Pam Perraud , NGO Director
Sports, booze and sex. They usually go together but this year’s World Cup championship in Germany set off a firestorm of controversy. Why? Because prostitution is legal in Germany and the well-organized Germans have gone to extraordinary lengths to anticipate and make sure that...
To Honorable Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
To Gerhard Mayer-Volfelder, President of FIFA Germany
Whereas:
