Conflict and post-conflict

In situations of conflict, women and girls often face very high levels of violence. This includes sexual and gender-based violence, displacement, and the loss of their means of living. While there are systems to address violence against women and girls in humanitarian contexts, preventing violence in conflict and post-conflict settings poses significant challenges. 

Conflict and post-conflict

Campaigns

Campaigns have become a powerful strategy when dealing with violence against women and girls in recent years. Executed at various levels, from local communities to global stages, campaigns play a vital role in the prevention of gender-based violence. 

Campaigns

Prevention

Unlock the power of effective programming and policy measures to tackle gender-based violence. Explore UN Women’s innovative toolkits and frameworks designed to empower policy-makers and programmers to eradicate the root causes of violence against women and girls and foster safe communities. 

Prevention

Pathways to prevention: Responding to survivors’ needs

Hear now from civil society and women’s rights organizations providing and advocating for better services, effective laws and new policies to better promote women’s right to live free of violence!
Pathways to prevention: Responding to survivors’ needs

Pathways to prevention: Take your time they say…

Podcast that explores how designing effective training for violence prevention takes time and effort. It also requires an iterative and adaptive process that is time and resource intensive.
Pathways to prevention: Take your time they say…

Pathways to prevention: Everyone, let’s get to work!

In this episode, we will hear from civil society organizations (CSOs) on how they empower women to lead and motivate adolescent girls to tackle new challenges to prevent violence against women and girls.
Pathways to prevention: Everyone, let’s get to work!

Pathways to prevention: How to engage faith and spirituality around violence?

Faith based and traditional actors are increasingly recognized as key to preventing violence. They can promote beliefs, norms and practices that can inhibit or enable prevention. In this podcast you will find out more from different types of civil society organizations on how to work effectively together with them.
Pathways to prevention: How to engage faith and spirituality around violence?
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