This webinar recording highlights the reasons why anti-racism is an integral part of sexual violence prevention. The webinar is the second in a five-part web conference series that explored how the promotion of health equity translates into real-world prevention strategies and organizational policy by building the toolkits of practitioners and their organizations and offering explicit examples of people putting health equity concepts into practice.

Migrants and women are among the groups that are at greater risk for and disproportionately affected by disasters. However, despite the large body of evidence that analyzes their vulnerability separately, disaster research that targets migrant women is scant. This scoping review aims to analyze the published scientific literature related to the vulnerability of migrant women and the consequent negative impact they experience during disasters.

UNFPA APRO developed tools for country offices and partners to strengthen gender-based violence (GBV) and disability inclusion programming, including a tip-sheet on disability inclusion in GBV programming and a GBV and disability inclusion assessment tool. The lessons learned from the implementation of the tools informed this documentation on promising practices and innovative approaches to disability inclusion in GBV programming adopted by UNFPA country offices and their partners in the Asia-Pacific region.

Household surveys, a principal source of data on violence against women and girls (VAWG), often underrepresent the extent of the problem due to the survivors’ shame, stigmatization, fear of consequences, and other barriers. This blog outlines a recent IFPRI discussion paper on a randomized experiment in Senegal comparing two methods of survey data collection on VAWG, showing that an anonymous approach yielded consistently higher reported levels of violence across a diverse set of VAWG indicators, as compared to in-person interviews.

knowing the huge scale and wide-reaching impacts of school-related gender-based violence, not enough is being done politically to end violence in schools, and to recognize and address the gendered drivers and dimensions of violence. This brief sets out clear and specific recommendations for governments to urgently prioritize and implement so that all schools are safe places for all students whatever their gender identity, gender expression, and/or sexual orientation.

This thematic brief summarizes key takeaways from an interagency “Learning Corner” event hosted on July 17, 2023 and organized by the Regional Safeguarding and Protection From Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Network in the Ukraine Refugee Response. The brief seeks to highlight promising practices and capture the key lessons learned from the Ukraine refugee response on government engagement in SEA.