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10 December 2018
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Tapping into the potential of gender data
Marking Human Rights Day, Emily Courey Pryor, Executive Director Data2x – a dynamic platform hosted by the UN Foundation – which promotes and enables production and use of gender data to improve lives of women and girls, talks to Sabin Muzaffar on alleviating gender-based poverty by filling gender data gaps.
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26 November 2018
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Fighting violence against women: From data to action
The scope of gender-based violence remains largely unknown in many countries. Taboos surrounding sexual and domestic violence, a lack of available services, and fraught justice systems can prevent victims from speaking up and seeking care in a majority of cases.
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25 October 2018
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Data literacy and storytelling at the UN World Data Forum
Investing in new systems, methods, and partnerships to build data supporting the Sustainable Development Goals is pointless if the resulting data is not used or questioned by those it aims to support.
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17 October 2018
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Opinion: How partnering with policymakers turns data into action
"Time and again, we found that in situations where data was able to revolutionize institutions and behavior, and create real impact, policymakers were part of the conversation before the expensive, labor-intensive work of data collection began."
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31 July 2018
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Mongolia Wrestles With Violence Against Women
In Mongolia, a pivotal national report on violence against women and a call for men to be allies.
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14 June 2018
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What Mongolia learned from its first gender-based violence survey
Mongolia’s first nationwide survey on gender-based violence reveals high rates of violence against women across the East Asian country. One in 10 women experienced non-partner sexual violence before the age of 15, and 1 in 4 women, regardless of her social and economic status, agreed that a husband may beat his wife if she is unfaithful, according to a national report.
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14 June 2018
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How the #MeToo movement came to Mongolia
According to Mongolia’s first nation-wide survey on gender-based violence, released by the national statistics office and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), 31% of women say they have been subjected to sexual or physical violence by their partner.
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15 August 2018
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The woman who put gender-based violence data on the map
Thirty years ago, Henriette Jansen wouldn’t have guessed she would become a global authority on measuring violence against women. It was chance, Jansen said, that diverted her from that path into the shadowy field of violence against women data collection — one she knew little about at the time. Twenty years after that serendipitous job acceptance for WHO, Jansen’s name is synonymous with the gold standard of sensitive data collection. She has helped governments and women’s groups in 35 countries establish surveys to understand violence against women in their nations — and worked as a consultant or adviser on various health statistics projects in 30 more. “She has laid the entire groundwork for in-depth statistical and qualitative research on gender-based violence like no other researcher in the field,” said Mia Rimon, a regional director for The Pacific Community who has worked with Jansen on numerous VAW studies in the region. The last decade has seen a marked increase in donor interest to address the persistence of violence against women and girls. With it, the need for more and better data to inform evidence-based programming to tackle this human rights violation has escalated.
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21 June 2018
Press Release
New kNOwVAWdata website and training course on measuring violence against women
UNFPA, the University of Melbourne, ANROWS and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade launch kNOwVAWdata website and training course on measuring violence against women.
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17 June 2018
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The Journey: Collecting data on violence against women in Mongolia
In early 2017, around one-hundred women gathered in a hotel conference room in central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. They had responded to a call to participate in a 'Women’s Health and Life Experiences' survey; to work as interviewers across Mongolia gathering data for the National Statistics Office (NSO).
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