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Expert Group Meeting
Expert Group Meeting on indicators to measure violence against women
Geneva, Switzerland
8-10 October 2007
The United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women co-organized an Expert Group Meeting on indicators to measure violence against women, together with UNECE and UNSD, in collaboration with ECLAC, ESCWA, ESCAP, and ECA. The EGM was hosted by by the Conference of European Statisticians Task Force on violence against women.
Objectives
Aide-Mémoire
Invited papers
Supporting papers
Objectives
The main objectives of the meeting were to:
- take stock of existing major national, regional and international initiatives aimed at developing indicators on violence against women;
- assess advantages and disadvantages of various indicator proposals;
- develop criteria for the identification of a possible set of indicators on violence against women;
- summarize options, and put forward recommendations for a possible set of indicators to support countries to measure the scope, prevalence and incidence of violence against women;
- outline related data collection requirements and constraints, as well as opportunities for overcoming these, taking into consideration users’ needs
The meeting also considered the types of violence that should be covered in a possible set of indicators and proposed an approach for defining a technical description of each possible indicator.
The expert group meeting will prepare a report that will:
- give an overview of existing initiatives for the development of indicators
- prepare options for a possible set of indicators on violence against women
The report will serve as input to the work of the Statistical Commission and the
Commission on the Status of Women in relation to the mandate of the General
Assembly. It will also contribute to the compilation of data and information on all
forms and manifestations of violence against women for inclusion in the coordinated database to be established by the Secretary-General.
Invited Papers
- WP.1 - Indicators to Measure Violence Against Women
Prepared by Sylvia Walby
- WP.4 - Specific Indicator Initiatives and Issues in the ESCAP region related to the measurement of violence against women (ESCAP)
Prepared by ESCAP
- WP.5 - Data on violence against women in Latin America and Caribbean (ECLAC)
Prepared by ECLAC
- WP.6 - Violence Against Women: Initiatives in the ESCWA Region (ESCWA)
Prepared by ESCWA
- WP.6/ADD.1 - Background document to ESCWA presentation
Prepared by ESCWA
- WP.7 - ENDIREH-2006’s achievements and limitations in determining indicators for measuring violence against women in Mexico
Prepared by Mexico
- WP.8 - Measuring Violence: Indicators from the Italian Violence Against Women survey
Prepared by ISTAT
- WP.10 - Violence against Women in Korea and its Indicators
Prepared by Whasoon Byun
- WP.11 - Violence against Women: Do the Governments Care? Mapping the state response in CEE and CIS countries
Prepared by Eniko Pap
- WP.12 - Indicators to measure violence against women.Can we decide on the building blocks? (WHO)
Prepared by Henrica A.F.M. Jansen
Supporting Papers
- SP.1 - Perspectives and standards for good practice in data collection on violence against women at European level
Prepared by CAHRV
- SP.2 - Indicators, Crime and Violence against Women
Prepared by UNDOC
- SP.3 - Criteria for identifying indicators on VAW
Prepared by OHCHR