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Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 66
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- The Secretary-General could be asked to convene a high-level panel on intensifying efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence, especially violence and discrimination against indigenous women and girls. States could increase regional monitoring and interregional cooperation; the Great Lakes treaty processes have been praised in that regard.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2017
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Vision-setting report 2016, para. 47
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- In her report on gender-related killing of women and girls: promising practices, challenges and practical recommendations (A/HRC/20/16), the previous mandate holder noted different manifestations of gender-related killings of women, including as a result of intimate-partner violence, following accusations of sorcery or witchcraft, in the name of "honour", in the context of armed conflict, dowry-related killings of women, and killings of aboriginal and indigenous women, among others.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Vision-setting report 2016, para. 30
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- In 2003, the Committee, pursuant to article 8 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention, undertook an inquiry into the abduction, rape and murder of women in and around Ciudad Juarez, State of Chihuahua, Mexico, and recommended that the Government investigate thoroughly and punish the negligence and complicity of public authorities in, the disappearances and murders of women. In 2012, the Committee conducted an inquiry with regard to the Philippines on the implementation of an order issued by the Mayor of the City of Manila on 29 February 2000, on the provision of sexual and reproductive health rights, services and commodities in the City of Manila. The Committee recommended that the State party ensure the immediate implementation of the Reproductive Health Act (adopted on 21 December 2012) and its Implementing Rules and Regulations, including provisions that guaranteed universal access to the full range of reproductive health services and information for women (CEDAW/C/OP.8/PHL/1, para. 51 (b)). In 2013, the Committee conducted an inquiry on Canada, based on allegations of severe of violence, including disappearances and murder, suffered by aboriginal women and girls. The Committee recommended that the State ensure that all cases of missing and murdered women were duly investigated and prosecuted (CEDAW/C/OP.8/CAN/1, para. 217 (a)). These examples show how jurisprudence can be an important tool for transformative change.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 75
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- The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has held several hearings in the last three years regarding the situation of violence and discrimination against sexual minorities in some countries of the Caribbean and Central and South America. In these countries, civil society organizations have expressed their concern regarding increasing incidents of homophobic crimes.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Année
- 2012
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence against women 2011, para. 14
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- Building on the Vienna Declaration and its framework, both the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995) and the Third World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban (2001) addressed the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination that cause intra-gender and intra-racial inequalities respectively. The Fourth World Conference on Women recognized the particular vulnerability to violence of "women belonging to minority groups, indigenous women, refugee women, women migrants, including women migrant workers, women in poverty living in rural or remote communities, destitute women, women in institutions or in detention, female children, women with disabilities, elderly women, displaced women, repatriated women, women living in poverty and women in situations of armed conflict, foreign occupation, wars of aggression, civil wars, terrorism, including hostage-taking." The World Conference against Racism included gender and racial discrimination among its five areas of focus. The Durban Declaration expressed the view "that racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance reveal themselves in a differentiated manner for women and girls, and can be among the factors leading to a deterioration in their living conditions, poverty, violence, multiple forms of discrimination, and the limitation or denial of their human rights."
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Poverty
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 2011
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Modalities for the establishment of femicides/gender-related killings watch 2016, para. 59
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- The Special Rapporteur notes that other categories with regard to the victim that would be valuable to track for such initiatives would be whether she was a woman human rights defender, whether she was homeless, her sexual orientation, whether she was an indigenous woman or girl and the mental health of the perpetrator (e.g., depression or threats to commit suicide).
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Health
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2016
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Continuum of violence against women from the home to the transnational sphere: the challenges of effective redress 2011, para. 39
- Paragraph text
- Violence perpetrated or condoned by the State may include gender-based violence during conflict, custodial violence, violence against refugees and internally displaced persons as well as against women from indigenous and minority groups.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 2011
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Violence against women as a barrier to the effective realization of all human rights 2014, para. 25
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- Violence against women often manifests itself in ways that violate women's right to the freedom of thought, conscience and religion. The use of threats of violence to force women from minority religious groups to convert to a different faith directly undermines women's freedom of conscience and religion. In addition, minority women in some communities have been threatened with violence for expressing their religious beliefs openly. Furthermore, targeted harassment of women wearing religious garments fosters an environment that threatens the right of women to practice their religion freely.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Année
- 2014
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 116e
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- [In cases involving gender-related killings, the international and regional human rights systems have included some of the following standards regarding the due diligence obligations of States:] Identify certain groups of women as being at particular risk for acts of violence due to having been subjected to discrimination based on more than one factor, including women belonging to ethnic, racial and minority groups. Such factors must be considered by States in the adoption of measures to prevent all forms of violence;
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Année
- 2012
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 92
- Paragraph text
- The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has urged Canada to examine the reasons for the failure to investigate the cases of missing or murdered aboriginal women, to take the necessary steps to remedy the deficiencies in the system, to carry out thorough investigations of the cases of aboriginal women who have gone missing or been murdered in recent decades, to conduct an analysis of such cases in order to determine whether there is a racialized pattern to the disappearances, and to take measures to address the problem if that is the case.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Année
- 2012
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence against women 2011, para. 13
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- In 1993, the Vienna Conference on Human Rights adopted a declaration and a programme of action, which took into account both discrimination and violence against women. The Conference addressed specific human rights violations suffered by identifiable groups of individuals, including persons belonging to national, racial, ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, indigenous peoples, women, children and persons with disabilities. It also recognized violence against women as a particular human rights violation which required the attention and resources of the United Nations.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Année
- 2011
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Continuum of violence against women from the home to the transnational sphere: the challenges of effective redress 2011, para. 77
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- Nevertheless, these measures will not bring about substantive results if not implemented within a holistic approach that targets both societal transformation and the empowerment of women. This mandate has stressed that linkages should be made between violence and other systems of oppression prevalent within societies, in order to tackle the structural causes of violence against women. In order for women to be able to progressively realize the full range of their human rights (civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights), States should promote and support their empowerment through education, skills training, legal literacy and access to productive resources. This will enhance women's self-awareness, self-esteem, self-confidence and self-reliance. Existing social and economic power systems and structures, at the institutional and individual levels, reinforce gender inequalities that make women more vulnerable to violence, in particular women living in poverty, migrant women, indigenous women, and young or elderly women. The economic empowerment of women through preventative factors, such as property and land rights for women, adequate housing, economic independence, or secondary education, may serve as a deterrent to such violence. Women that are empowered understand that they are not destined to subordination and violence. They resist internalizing oppression, they develop their capabilities as autonomous beings and they increasingly question and negotiate the terms of their existence in both public and private spheres.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 2011
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Adequacy of the international legal framework on violence against women 2017, para. 29
- Paragraph text
- Civil society organizations also claimed that the current framework failed to address violence against women in specific contexts such as violence against women in conflict; situations of “invisible violence”, namely economic violence and psychological violence against, for instance, women belonging to minority groups; and the specific experiences of children exposed to violence against women. They also pointed out that, among the substantive issues that were missing in the current legal framework, there was the need to create an intersectionality of approach, including the initiatives by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Human Rights Council and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Année
- 2017
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Vision-setting report 2016, para. 45
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- On 25 November 2015, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Special Rapporteur called upon all States to establish a "femicide watch", or a "gender-related killing of women watch". She proposed that data on the number of femicides or cases of gender-related killings of women, disaggregated by age and ethnicity of victims, and the sex of the perpetrators, and indicating the relationship between the perpetrator and the victim or victims, be published every year, on 25 November, and that information concerning the prosecution and punishment of perpetrators also be collected and published. Given the shortcomings of many national prevention systems, the lack of reliable data and risk assessments, and consequent misidentification, concealment and underreporting of gender-related killings, including of women belonging to ethnic minorities, the proposal would provide crucial information for the development of effective strategies to address this serious human rights violation.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Année
- 2016
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Modalities for the establishment of femicides/gender-related killings watch 2016, para. 29
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- The current Special Rapporteur has decided that one of her immediate priorities is the prevention of femicide and the use of data on violence against women as a tool to that end (see A/HRC/32/42). On 25 November 2015, to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, she called upon all States to establish a femicide watch or a "gender-related killing of women watch". She proposed that data on the number of femicides or cases of the gender-related killing of women, disaggregated by the age and the ethnicity of victims and the sex of the perpetrators and indicating the relationship between the perpetrator and the victim or victims, should be published annually, on 25 November, along with information concerning the prosecution and punishment of perpetrators. Given the shortcomings of many national prevention systems, the lack of reliable data and risk assessments and the consequent misidentification, concealment and underreporting of gender-related killings, including of women belonging to ethnic minorities, the proposal would facilitate the collection of crucial information for the development of effective strategies to address this serious human rights violation. Each gender-related killing of women should be analysed carefully to identify any failure of protection, with a view to improving and developing further preventive measures. In the collection, analysis and publication of such data, States should cooperate with non-governmental organizations and independent human rights institutions working in the field, representatives of victims and other relevant international organizations and stakeholders.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Année
- 2016
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Existing legal standards and practices regarding violence against women in three regional human rights systems and activities being undertaken by civil society regarding the normative gap in international human rights law 2015, para. 57
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- With regard to violence against women cases, merits decisions of the Commission and the jurisprudence of the Court have been influenced by the relevant international and regional instruments. These rulings have generated legal standards addressing crucial issues applicable to the rights of women in key areas, including the right of women to live free from all forms of discrimination and violence; the obligation of States to act with due diligence; access to justice for women victims of discrimination and violence; the economic, social and cultural rights of women; and the reproductive rights of women. Some of the most important standards include the duty of States to exercise due diligence to prevent, promptly investigate and sanction all forms of violence against women committed by either State or non-State actors; the obligation to provide effective and impartial judicial avenues for victims of all forms of violence against women; the holding of rape as a form of torture when it is committed by State agents; the obligation of States to take action to eradicate discrimination against women and stereotypical patterns of behaviour that promote their unequal treatment in their societies; and the recognition of multiple forms of discrimination and violence that indigenous women can suffer based on grounds of sex, race, ethnicity and economic position. Most of the Commission's recommendations have traditionally centred on the following themes: violence, the duty to act with due diligence, access to justice, and the different facets of discrimination, including its structural, systemic and intersectional nature.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Année
- 2015
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Closing the gap in international human rights law: lessons from three regional human rights systems on legal standards and practices regarding violence against women 2015, para. 58
- Paragraph text
- With regard to violence against women cases, merits decisions of the Commission and the jurisprudence of the Court have been influenced by the relevant international and regional instruments. These rulings have generated legal standards addressing crucial issues applicable to the rights of women in key areas, including the right of women to live free from all forms of discrimination and violence; the obligation of States to act with due diligence; access to justice for women victims of discrimination and violence; the economic, social and cultural rights of women; and the reproductive rights of women. Some of the most important standards include the duty of States to exercise due diligence to prevent, promptly investigate and sanction all forms of violence against women, committed by either State or non-State actors; the obligation to provide effective and impartial judicial avenues for victims of all forms of violence against women; the holding of rape as a form of torture when it is committed by State agents; the obligation of States to take action to eradicate discrimination against women and stereotypical patterns of behavior that promote their unequal treatment in their societies; and the recognition of multiple forms of discrimination and violence that indigenous women can suffer based on grounds of sex, race, ethnicity and economic position. Most of the Commission's recommendations have traditionally centred on the following themes: violence, the duty to act with due diligence, access to justice, and the different facets of discrimination, including its structural, systemic and intersectional nature.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Année
- 2015
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Violence against women as a barrier to the effective realization of all human rights 2014, para. 46
- Paragraph text
- Indigenous women also are especially susceptible to gender-based violence. The social, cultural, economic and political marginalization of aboriginal and indigenous women globally, along with a negative legacy of colonialism, historical racist government policies and the consequences of economic policies, have driven an alarming number of these women into extremely vulnerable situations (A/HRC/20/16, para. 61). The Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples has noted that the increased militarization of the territories belonging to indigenous peoples in Asia has had an impact on gender-based violence. Gender-based violence is prevalent in indigenous territories, and there is a need to combat the culture of silence that exists to suppress the existence of this violence, which occurs between the military and indigenous women (A/HRC/24/41/Add.3, para. 24).
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Année
- 2014
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 65
- Paragraph text
- Until 1985 Canada had many discriminatory laws against aboriginal women and children; this has had an intergenerational impact, and has contributed to a legacy of violence, abuse and impunity. Today, a young aboriginal woman is five times more likely than other Canadian women of the same age to die of violence. According to a 2010 report, of 582 cases of violence against aboriginal women, 20 per cent involved missing women and girls, 67 per cent involved women or girls who died as a result of homicide or negligence, and 4 per cent fell under the category of suspicious death (usually declared natural or accidental by the police). Between 2000 and 2008, 153 cases of murders of women and girls were reported, and in 115 of these cases, the bodies are still missing. Aboriginal women and girls are more likely to be killed by a stranger than are non-aboriginal women. Approximately 50 per cent of such murders remain unsolved. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has expressed its concern that "hundreds of cases involving aboriginal women who have gone missing or been murdered in the past two decades have neither been fully investigated nor attracted priority attention, with the perpetrators remaining unpunished".
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Année
- 2012
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 64
- Paragraph text
- In Australia, violence against aboriginal women is egregious due to the use of weapons and the licensing of firearms. Incidents of weapon-inflicted violence, involving hammers, knives, sticks, stones, guns and pickets, have resulted in a number of homicides of aboriginal women. Recent reports indicate that aboriginal women are at far greater risk of being the victims of homicide, rape and other assaults than non-aboriginal women. However, aboriginal women have been reluctant to expose these acts of violence, due to the risk of further denigration of their communities from the dominant white society. As noted by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, "indigenous women and girls face the highest levels of violence, especially at home where indigenous women are 35 times as likely to be hospitalized as a result of family violence-related assaults as non-indigenous females".
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2012
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 63
- Paragraph text
- In Guatemala, the current experience of massive and violent killings of indigenous women has a legacy stemming back to colonial times, further increasing during the 36-year armed conflict. Indigenous Maya women constituted 88 per cent of victims of sexual and systematic attacks, with such attacks being publicly and intentionally perpetrated, mainly by military and paramilitary personnel. After the 1996 Peace Accord, no efforts were made to seek justice for and provide reparations to the victims and their families. In fact, article 200 of the Penal Code (repealed in 2006) afforded immunity to perpetrators of sexual violence and kidnapping of women and girls over 12 years old, where the perpetrator subsequently married the victim. Thus a State-endorsed impunity was established, condoning all forms of violence, particularly against indigenous women.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2012
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 62
- Paragraph text
- The intersection of different layers of discrimination based on race, ethnic identity, sex, class, education and political views further disenfranchises indigenous and aboriginal women, reproducing a multi-level oppression that culminates in violence. In cases of killings of aboriginal and indigenous women, the main failings by the authorities are the failure of police to protect aboriginal women and girls from violence and to investigate promptly and thoroughly when they are missing or murdered, and the disadvantaged social and economic conditions in which aboriginal women and girls live, which make them vulnerable to such violence.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2012
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 61
- Paragraph text
- Aboriginal and indigenous women and girls experience extremely high levels of violence. The social, cultural, economic and political marginalization of aboriginal and indigenous women globally, along with a negative legacy of colonialism, historic racist government policies and the consequences of economic policies, has driven an alarming number of these women into extremely vulnerable situations. For example, the effect of certain economic policies imposed on the Central America region has exacerbated the vulnerability of indigenous women, and has forced them to migrate both internally and regionally. They have been pressed into low-skilled and low-paid jobs, mainly in maquila factories, domestic service, the sex trade and prostitution, under precarious and exploitative conditions.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2012
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 16
- Paragraph text
- The killings can be active or direct, with defined perpetrators, but they can also be passive or indirect. The direct category includes: killings as a result of intimate-partner violence; sorcery/witchcraft-related killings; honour-related killings; armed conflict-related killings; dowry-related killings; gender identity- and sexual orientation-related killings; and ethnic- and indigenous identity-related killings. The indirect category includes: deaths due to poorly conducted or clandestine abortions; maternal mortality; deaths from harmful practices; deaths linked to human trafficking, drug dealing, organized crime and gang-related activities; the death of girls or women from simple neglect, through starvation or ill-treatment; and deliberate acts or omissions by the State.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Girls
- Women
- Année
- 2012
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Violence against women with disabilities 2012, para. 22
- Paragraph text
- Indigenous women with disabilities often experience multiple forms of discrimination and face barriers to the full enjoyment of their rights, based on their indigenous status, their disability and their female identity. The incidence of violence against them is heightened by factors, such as living in a context of high levels of alcohol and substance abuse, which leads to violence against them; cultural and linguistic barriers; lack of education services for children with disabilities in native communities; and systemic poverty. They may also encounter barriers resulting from the use of conflicting or complex traditional and contemporary justice and service systems.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Année
- 2012
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence against women 2011, para. 97
- Paragraph text
- Women's right to self-determination includes the ability to determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development. Any group or persons that infringe this right are perpetuating a form of structural violence against the disempowered group, and further marginalizing the rights of certain women within a given political context. Furthermore, marginalized groups, including indigenous peoples and minorities, often justify violence against women based on collective identity formed in opposition to the dominant and oppressing group. Indeed, "culture-based identity politics [are] a major challenge to the achievement of gender equality and the elimination of violence against women."
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Année
- 2011
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence against women 2011, para. 96
- Paragraph text
- Self-determination embodies the rights of individuals and peoples to make decisions about their economic, social, religious and familial well-being, and to honour the expressed desires of people and individuals to control their own affairs. Women within minority and marginalized groups, including indigenous women, are often denied their basic right to self-determination. This is further obscured by literature that demonstrates how elite and privileged women have gained these rights. In this way, self-determination is another area where the invisible hierarchy of women vis-à-vis other women masks the ongoing inequality experienced by many of the world's women.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Année
- 2011
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence against women 2011, para. 69
- Paragraph text
- The operation of inter- and intra-gender hierarchies is made even more complex by communities and States with histories of subjugation either as national minorities or under systems including colonialism, imperialism, apartheid and occupation. Gender-based violence occurs within these larger communities and national narratives often reify violence. These narratives tell stories of overcoming subjugation and asserting the rights of self-determination and self-definition, and may help to explain why the incidence of gender-based violence appears not only to be high, but also to be tolerated in formerly subjugated communities and States.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Année
- 2011
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
Paragraphe
Multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence against women 2011, para. 58
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- Research demonstrates the utility of an approach that accounts for additional aspects of personhood, such as nationality, disability, indigenous belonging, sexual orientation, and socio-economic class, to predetermine the likelihood and extent to which women will experience multiple forms and various levels of violence. In adopting a more comprehensive approach, a picture of the different ways in which intersectional and multiple forms of discrimination operate in the context of violence against women emerges. It reflects the type of systematic, comprehensive, multisectoral and sustained approach needed to develop national strategies, concrete programmes and actions aimed at eliminating all forms of violence against women.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Année
- 2011
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
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Continuum of violence against women from the home to the transnational sphere: the challenges of effective redress 2011, para. 29
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- Prosecution of domestic and other forms of family violence remains low. El Salvador saw a decline from 4,890 (2003) to 1,240 (2007) in the number of judicial proceedings in intra-family violence cases initiated in family courts. The Special Rapporteur recurrently hears accounts of police officers encouraging informal resolutions and reconciliation between the parties rather than arresting the perpetrators. In Zambia, women preferred conciliation primarily due to family pressure and economic dependency on the abuser. Women facing multiple forms of discrimination, such as immigrant and indigenous women or women belonging to a minority, may be particularly reluctant to reach out to the authorities, who they may perceive as oppressive rather than protective. The Special Rapporteur received reports of the arrest of women of colour and of minority women following domestic violence incidents during her visit to the United States of America.
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Personnes concernées
- Ethnic minorities
- Families
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Année
- 2011
- Date ajouter
- 19 août 2019
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