Selected links on Gender Based Violence

Gender-based violence is an umbrella term for any harm that is perpetrated against a person’s will, and that results from power inequities that are based on gender roles. Around the world, gender based violence almost always has a greater negative impact on women and girls. For this reason the term "gender based violence" is often used interchangeably with the term "violence against women". On this page we have collected some useful links with information about Gender Based Violence.

Introduction to Gender Based Violence

• Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security UN 2000
• Resolution 1820 (2008) on sexual violence against civilians in conflict UN 2008
• Guidelines for gender-based violence interventions in humanitarian settings IASC 2005
• What social workers should know about Gender based violence and health of adolecent girls
• Shattered lives - Immediate medical care vital for sexual violence victims MSF 2009
• Indicators on violence against women and State response OHCHR Special Rapporteur on violence against women, 2008
• Strengthening the protection of women from torture OHCHR Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, 2008
• Prevention of and response to Gender Based Violence Camp management toolkit, NRC
• For Assessment & Program Design, Monitoring & Evaluation in conflict-affected settings

Human Rights Introduction to Gender Based Violence

• This report highlights the failure of the Afghan state to respect, protect and fulfil the rights of women and girls.
• Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women.
• A toolkit aimed at policymakers to address issues of concern, advocate for the protection of women from all forms of violence.
• Cases from Africa
• Gender-Based Violence: A Price Too High
• First chapter of Gender based violence a public health and human rights problem in the Americas.

War & Conflict

• Promising democracy, imposing theocracy: gender-based violence and the US war on Iraq
• Ending Sexual Violence in Darfur: An Advocacy Agenda Refugees International 2007
• Sexual violence and its consequences among displaced persons in Darfur and Chad
• Focusing on education needs and protection from gender-based violence for adolescent girls in refugecamps in Chad.
• Sexual Violence during the Rwandan Genocide and its Aftermath
• Gender based violence against kosovar albanian women
• Gender-based Violence in Conflict Zones
• The example of Srebrenica and Tuzla
• Sexual and gender-based violence against refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons UNHCR 2003
• Impunity and gender-based violence

Female Genital Mutilation

• Eliminating female genital mutilation, an interagency statement.
• What strategies work to stop female genital mutilation/cutting?
• Female genital mutilation: a handbook for frontline workersWHO
• A statistical exploration on female genital mutilation.
• Combating Female Genital Mutilation in Europe
• The impact of harmfull traditional practises on the girl child

Guidelines and tools

• Refugee women at risk; assessment tool and response mechanism CRR and ANCORW
• A Practical Approach to Gender-Based Violence : A Programme Guide for Health Care Providers and Managers UNFPA 2001
• Guidelines for medico-legal care for victims of sexual violence WHO 2004
• Trauma treatment manual This manual was originally written for people working in the field with women survivors of rape in Bosnia, but it can be used more broadly as a guide for helping anyone of either gender who has survived any kind of trauma.

Human Trafficking

• The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols
• UNDOC Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons
• Trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation in the americas.
• This report points out how practices of migration management can benefit from a more holistic approach.
• Revisiting the Human trafficking paradigm: the Bangladesh experience
• This publication highlights the importance of considering the psychosocial approach.

Organisations and sites

• UNODC on Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling
• The Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)
• Women WON'T wait
• Animus Association
• Perm Center for Assistance to Persons Suffered from Violence and Human Trafficking
• Womenaid International Caucasus
• Interagency Gender Working Group
• The Reproductive Health Response in Conflict (RHRC) Consortium