Territories protecting women victims of violence
The global network of local governments committed into the fight against violence against women.
Elected officials, professionals and associations, international networks and organizations, researchers: we need you.
While Israel and Hamas announced on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, an agreement for a ceasefire in Gaza, accompanied by the release...
More than 50 local leaders and experts gathered in Seine-Saint-Denis, France, to highlight the crucial role of local and regional governments in eliminating violence against women, at the final seminar of the three-year international programme ‘’Territories protecting women victims of violence‘’. This programme is based on 20 years’ experience of the Observatory on Violence against Women (OVF) of the Department of Seine-Saint-Denis and of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) through the Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights. It was financed by the French Development Agency (AFD).
During our exchange on December 17, 2024, Mayssoun Dawoud, head of Jenin's Observatory of Violence against Women, testified
Over 50 Local Leaders and Experts Gather in Seine-Saint-Denis to Highlight the Role of Local and Regional Governments to #EndVAW
On November 15, 2024, the Observatory on violence against women welcomed a Comorian delegation composed of actors committed to...
On September 5th, in the absence of the mayor of Jenin, who was held back by the Israeli offensive in his town, the mayors of...
During our weekly meeting on August 8, 2024, Maysoun Dawoud, Head of the Observatory of Violence Against Women in Jenin, shared...
Women has experienced physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner or another person ( WHO, 2013)
Women were killed as a result of conjugal and/or intra-family violence ( United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2019 )
Women are killed by a family member every day ( United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2019 )
Adolescent girls between the ages of 15 and 19 have been subjected to forced sex in their lifetime (UNICEF, 2017)
Women were killed by their partners or ex-partners in 2020, which is one woman every 3.5 days. 35% had experienced previous violence (France)
Women over the age of majority report having been physically and/or sexually abused by their spouse or ex-spouse over the course of a year. (2018 data, France).
Of the victims of partner violence recorded by the police and gendarmerie services are women (France)
Victims of rape in one year (France)
Women victims of sexual violence recorded by the police and gendarmerie services (France)
Elected officials, professionals and associations, international networks and organizations, researchers: we need you.
