Report of the international meeting of experts on the theme “Measuring gender-based violence against women and girls: lessons learned and challenges”
28 Aug 2024
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Report of the international meeting of experts on the theme “Measuring gender-based violence against women and girls: lessons learned and challenges”
- Publication type: Seminars and Conferences Series
- Physical description: 35 pages.
- Publisher: ECLAC
- UN symbol (Signature): LC/TS.2024/73
- Date: August, 2024
Abstract
Within the framework of the XXIV International Meeting on Gender Statistics held in September 2023 in Aguascalientes, Mexico, the international meeting of experts was convened to analyse strategies for measuring the prevalence and incidence of gender-based violence against women and girls and the progress made in the region in developing statistical operations, registry systems and tools to measure the magnitude and occurrence of gender-based violence. The meeting identified the main challenges and recommendations in the area of surveys, single registries of gender-based violence and administrative records.
Table of contents
- Summary
- I. Background
- II. Summary of proceedings. A. Opening session. B. Session 1: progress and challenges in measuring the prevalence of gender-based violence against women and girls in Latin America and the Caribbean. C. Session 2: findings and challenges of single-registry systems on gender-based violence against women and girls in the region. D. Session 3: challenges of interoperability in managing administrative records of gender-based violence against women and girls to improve statistical quality and strengthen prevention measures. E. Session 4: road map for improving administrative records on gender-based violence against women and girls with counterparts in the region, within the framework of the Statistical Conference of the Americas. F. Closing session
- III. Recommendations from the meeting.
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- Latin America and the Caribbean