The pandemic highlighted the immense challenges that women face in their health, safety and livelihoods. Many women, especially those in vulnerable communities, have lost a generation’s worth of economic gains. With the increase in gender-based violence and the reversal of decades of advancement for women in the workplace, we have reached an inflection point for gender equality. More
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The Gender-Based Violence Counsellor Training Package is composed of three modules with a total of 20 sessions, including components on a survivor-centered approach, ethical and legal foundations, and functional competencies of basic Domestic Violence/Gender-Based Violence Counselling.
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The purpose of the Regional EVAWG Services Symposium Outcomes Document is to summarise key lessons learned from diverse countries in the region on accelerating commitments to support national gender-based violence response systems and feed outcomes into other key regional fora and processes.
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A Pacific Regional Consultation on Prevention of Violence against Women and Girls - To advance the regional dialogue and action on primary prevention, UN Women convened a three-day consultation bringing together key stakeholders from the region to discuss current prevention programming practice, and hear from global practitioners and researchers working on violence prevention. Forty-two participants attended from across seven countries...
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Given the developments in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond since the global Expert Group Meeting on VAWG prevention that took place in 2012, UN Women and UNFPA, in partnership with the Austral-ian Government and KWDI, hosted an Asia-Pacific Forum on Preventing Violence against Women and Girls: Evidence and Tools for Social Norm Change, for senior experts, policymakers, practitioners and development partners on 1-2 December 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand. The primary aim was to reflect on how...