Community activists bring hope to survivors in Mozambique

Interventions supported by Spotlight Initiative are helping women to escape and report violence, access medical treatment and navigate the justice system
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Migrant domestic workers must not be forgotten

Through awareness-raising campaigns, support desks in airports and training for service providers, the Safe and Fair programme addresses a multitude of risks faced by women migrant workers in the ASEAN region where 80 per cent of the migrant domestic workers are women. Read more

From domestic violence survivor to police officer

Amparo García, 34, is a community police officer in Choloma, a municipality in Honduras that has one of the country’s highest rates of domestic and gender-based violence. Ms. García understands these women better than most police agents; she used to be one of them.
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How can you help end violence against women and girls?

By answering these seven questions, you can help the Spotlight Initiative design its awareness-raising actions to reach more people around the world.
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Women Count: A Gender Data Portal (UN Women, 2020): Women Count seeks to bring about a radical shift in how gender statistics are used, created and promoted at the global, regional and country level. This tool provides updated data on gender-specific SDG indicators, women, peace and security, violence against women, and other thematic areas.
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Ending School Related Gender Based Violence (UNGEI, UNESCO, 2019): Recommendations, tools and guidance to prevent and respond to school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) are centred in these thematic briefs, covering a whole school approach to preventing SRGBV, integrating SRGBV in national policies and education sector plans, among other approaches. Read more

Background Paper: A synthesis of evidence on the collection and use of administrative data on violence against women (UN Women, 2020). Read more

Gender-based Violence and Environment Linkages: The Violence of Inequality (IUCN, 2020). Read more

Protection of Victims of Sexual Violence: Lessons Learned (OHCHR, 2019). Read more

Spotlight Initiative knowledge products

Men and Masculinities: Pedagogical tools to facilitate workshops with adolescents and young people (Spotlight Initiative Argentina, Institute of Masculinities and Social Change, 2019). Read more