Domestic Violence against Women and Girls

Sushma Kapoor

Innocenti Digest

Abstract: This Digest focuses on domestic violence as one of the most prevalent yet relatively hidden and ignored forms of violence against women and girls globally. Domestic violence is a health, legal, economic, educational, developmental and, above all, a human rights issue. The Digest looks at the magnitude and universality of domestic violence, and its impact on the rights of women and children. It emphasizes the need for coordinated and integrated policy responses; implementing existing leglisation; and ensuring greater accountability from governments in order to eliminate this violence. Information on regional and international NGOs working in this area, and suggestions for further reading are also provided.

Keywords: children's rights; children's rights violation; domestic violence; freedom from cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment; freedom from discrimination; implementation of the crc; protection from abuse and neglect; violence; violence against women; women's rights; Global (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22
Date: 2000
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucf:inndig:inndig00/9

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
https://www.unicef-i ... women-and-girls.html
The price is All UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti publications can be downloaded from our website free of charge. Printed copies of some titles can also be ordered from the United Nations Publications website https://shop.un.org/search/unicef/node/29892.

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Innocenti Digest
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Patrizia Faustini ().