Working at the Intersections of Violence Against Children and Violence Against Women
Why it matters for children’s protection and well-being
Highlights
There is a growing and well-established evidence base illustrating the various ways violence against children and violence against women intersect. These areas of overlap include shared and compounding consequences for children’s and women’s well-being and health. As we strive for every child to grow up free from violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation and harmful practices, this body of evidence makes it clear that these intersections must be considered.
To this end, UNICEF’s current Child Protection Strategy underscores the need for an increase in coordinated approaches to prevent and respond to violence against children and violence against women. This series of evidence to action briefs seek to support UNICEF country offices and other organizations that care for children to integrate work on these intersections. The briefs complement UNICEF’s global and regional efforts with other United Nations agencies to advance coordinated or shared programming on violence against children and violence against women.
We encourage you to explore all four briefs:
- Brief 1: Why it matters for children’s protection and well-being
- Brief 2: Parent and caregiver support programmes
- Brief 3: Adolescent programming to prevent violence
- Brief 4: Improving coordination of response and support services for victim-survivors of violence (forthcoming)
To learn more, watch the two webinars below.
The first webinar, covering briefs 1 and 2, focuses on the ways violence against children and violence against women intersect, why addressing these intersections matter for children’s protection and well-being. It also describes how programmes to support caregivers can be strengthened to simultaneously promote gender equality and prevent violence against women.
The second webinar, covering brief 3, describes how violence against children and violence against women intersect during adolescence and shows how adolescent programming to prevent violence can be designed to take into account these intersections.
