The UN Secretary-General's Database on Violence Against Women

The UN Secretary-General's Database on Violence Against Women

http://webapps01.un.org/vawdatabase/home.action

 

This web-based database was launched in March of 2009, and is the result of a resolution adopted by the UN Secretary-General to eliminate all types of violence against women. A good place for visitors to start searching the extensive database is by clicking on the "About the Database" tab at the top of the homepage. To see the content of the questionnaire that was sent to all UN Member States, visitors can click on the hyperlink "Questionnaire on Violence Against Women" in the second paragraph. By clicking on the "Country Pages" tab at the top of the home page visitors can view a particular country's treatment of violence against women. For visitors interested in reading about the practices that some countries have in place, clicking on the "Good Practices" tab at the top of the homepage will take them there. The good practices are divided up into promising practices in law, prevention, and the provisioning of services. The "Advanced Search" tab at the top of the homepage allows visitors to search using various criteria, including type of measure taken to address violence against women, form of violence, country, and year. >From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2009. http://scout.wisc.edu/