Violence against Women - Facts and Figures
- Document number
- 2022
- Date
- 2009
- Title
- Violence against Women - Facts and Figures
- Author/publisher
- United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Domestic violence, human trafficking, sexual violence, genital mutation, HIV/AIDS, child marriage, honour killings
- Summary
- In 1996, the United Nations General Assembly established the UN Trust Fund to Eliminate Violence against Women. The Trust Fund is managed by UNIFEM and is the only multilateral grant-making mechanism that supports local, national and regional efforts to combat violence. Since it began operations in 1997, the Trust Fund has awarded more than US$19 million to 263 initiatives to address violence against women in 115 countries. Raising awareness of women's human rights, these UNIFEM-supported efforts have linked activists and advocates from all parts of the world; shown how small, innovative projects impact laws, policies and attitudes; and has begun to break the wall of silence by moving the issue onto public agendas everywhere.
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