Facts and figures: Ending violence against women 

[1] European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (2014). Violence against women: An EU-wide survey, p. 104.

[2] UN Women (2021). Violence against women in the online space: Insights from a multi-country study in the Arab States.

[3] Uganda Bureau of Statistics (2021). National survey on violence in Uganda. Module I: violence against women and girls.

[4] National Human Rights Commission of Korea, Sung Soo Hong, and others (2017). The situation of hate speech and regulatory measures to combat hate speech.

[5] GBV AoR Helpdesk (2021). Climate change and gender-based violence: What are the links?

[6] UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2017). Horn of Africa: A call for action.

[7] UN Women (2020). Climate change, gender equality and human rights in Asia: Regional review and promising practices.

[8] United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and UN Women (2023). Gender-related killings of women and girls: Global estimates of female intimate partner/family-related homicides in 2022.

[9] World Health Organization (2021). Violence against women prevalence estimates, 2018.

[10] UN Women (2021). Measuring the shadow pandemic: Violence against women during COVID-19.

[11] United Nations Economic and Social Affairs (2015). The world’s women 2015: Trends and statistics, p. 159.

[12] World Bank Group (2023). Women, business and the law 2023.

[13] UN Women (2021). Research brief: Intimate partner violence in five CARICOM countries: Findings from National Prevalence Surveys on violence against women.

[14] UN Women (2012). Estimating the cost of domestic violence against women in Viet Nam.

[15] Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics and the National Council for Women, Republic of Egypt, with UNFPA (2015). The Egypt economic cost of gender-based violence survey.

[16] Haut Commissariat au Plan Maroc (2019). Rapport sur les violences faites aux femmes et aux filles, Enquête Nationale sur la Violence à l’Encontre des Femmes et des Hommes.

[17] European Institute for Gender Equality (2021). The costs of gender-based violence in the European Union.

[18] World Health Organization (2021). Violence against women prevalence estimates, 2018.

[19] UNICEF (2017). A familiar face: Violence in the lives of children and adolescents, p. 73, 82.

[20] UNODC (2022). Global report on trafficking in persons 2022, p. 25, 33.

[21] Secretary-General of the United Nations (2023). Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals: Towards a rescue plan for people and planet. Report of the Secretary-General (special edition).

[22] UNESCO (2019). Behind the numbers: Ending school violence and bullying, p.25-26.

[23] United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division (2020). Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

[24] Inter-Parliamentary Union (2016). Sexism, harassment and violence against women parliamentarians, p. 3.

[25] UNESCO (2022). The chilling: Global trends in online violence against women journalists.

[Page updated 21 September 2023.]