FGM / Honor Killings / Forced Marriage / Acid Attacks Content Topic Results

This report from Sahiyo U.S. explores how different forms of oppression intersect to limit survivors’ access to resources, as well as how the work to end FGM/C is connected to other themes across the human experience.

On February 20, 2020, the Every Woman Institute released its first-ever Safer Sooner Report. The Safer Sooner Report identifies gaps under current international systems in addressing and preventing violence against women and girls, and maps out a path to a world where every woman can claim her right to live free from violence.

Homicide represents the most extreme form of violence against women, a lethal act on a continuum of gender-based discrimination and abuse. This report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime is intended to raise awareness, increase understanding, and inform efforts to prevent and end violence against women and gender-related killings.

This factsheet provides fully-cited statistics on gender-based violence in Asian and Pacific Islander communities.

This fact sheet describes FGM and explains who is at risk for experiencing these procedures. The fact sheet also describes the international response to this problem.

This Applied Research paper provides information and research on forced marriage in the United States and its intersections with child abuse, sexual assault and rape, domestic and family violence, stalking, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), and human trafficking. The research demonstrates that forced marriage is a serious but neglected problem in this country, and despite many advocates’ best efforts, survivors of forced marriage and those at risk continue to fall through the cracks of the systems and programs set up to protect individuals from abuse.

A forced marriage, by definition, takes place without the full and free consent of one or both parties, and typically involves force, coercion, and deception. NRCDV's July 2015 TA Question of the Month examines the intersection of forced marriage and domestic violence.

This fact sheet gives answers to frequently asked questions regarding female genital mutilation.

This study examines the impact of fear of deportation and trust in the procedural fairness of the justice system on willingness to report violent crime victimization among Latinas in the United States.

This article addresses the ways in which some acts of violence against women are often characterized as "honor killings," and asserts that this a form of labeling other "Others" as being backward and inherently more violent than western cultures. The author stresses the importance of rejecting this narrative.

This report documents activities of the Joint Program in its fifth year of implementation in 15 African countries: Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda.