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Women and Girls Choose: Cash Assistance in GBV Case Management
As part of a coordinated response to gender-based violence (GBV), UNFPA and its partners provide cash assistance within a structured GBV case management process to survivors. UNFPA and its country offices will share their experiences showing how cash can be dignifying, discreet, and flexible, and help survivors escape violence and violent relationships.
Finding the Path Forward: Highlighting Marginalized Refugee Women and Girls’ Experiences of GBV in the Global South
GWI's Building GBV Evidence program will be hosting a four-part webinar series over this year to dive deeper into gaps and opportunities around GBV research in humanitarian settings. Please join us for the second session, “Finding the Path Forward: Highlighting Marginalized Refugee Women and Girls’ Experiences of GBV in the Global South,” on Thursday, February 17, 2022, at 9am EST. This webinar will focus on research findings from subpopulations of refugee women and girls that are largely missing from the GBV research and evaluation literature. Our esteemed panelists will focus on women and girls with disabilities and older women. Further, we will discuss research methods and ethical considerations when working with these and other marginalized communities. The Building GBV Evidence webinar series is based on the findings from a year-long process to map out the existing published evidence and illuminate key research gaps to identify who is missing, what we don’t yet know, a...
World Day against Trafficking in Person
Human trafficking is a crime that exploits women, children and men for numerous purposes including forced labour and sex. Since 2003 the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has collected information on about 225,000 victims of trafficking detected worldwide. Globally countries are detecting and reporting more victims, and are convicting more traffickers. This can be the result of increased capacity to identify victims and/or an increased number of trafficked victims.
Migrant Women & SDGs - UN High Level Political Forum Side Event
The United Nations High Level Political Forum will be held at the UN Headquarters in New York from Tuesday, 9 July, to Thursday, 18 July 2019 with side events happening around the UN during the week. The theme of the Forum will be "Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality" and the discussion will center on SDGs 4, 8, 10, 13, 16 &17.