Territories protecting women victims of violence
The global network of local governments committed into the fight against violence against women.
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During our weekly video conference on 4 April, we shared information on the situation in Jenin. Maysoun Dawoud, Head of the Jenin...
With its local expertise, the Observatory of Violence against Women also works internationally. During the 18th “Femmes du Monde en Seine-Saint-Denis” meeting, marking the 20th anniversary of the Observatory, partner delegations from Ngazidja and Jenin were welcomed. These partners met with the local associative fabric committed to the protection of women and presented their year of work on the program “For protective territories for women victims of violence”.
As part of the project “Territories protecting women victims of violence”, the International Observatory on Violence against...
During our weekly video call on March 21st, Mayssoun Dawoud, Head of the Observatory for Violence Against Women in Djenin, shared...
During a telephone conversation on March 13, we received alarming information about the situation in Djénine. Mayssoun Dawoud,...
On this March 8, 2024, we would like to express our solidarity with all women and girls who are victims of violence in times of...
As part of the 2024 Campus Seminar of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) from February 19 to 23, 2024, the International...
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.
