mental health and urban poor women. dearth of available online work women’s human
rights in the context of disabilities, climate change, housing and health.
Focus Area / Topic
sexual and reproductive health
general women’s human rights / gender equality
disasters and climate change
intimate partner abuse / VAWC
migration
sexuality / LGBT
women and economy / economic empowerment
violence against women (all forms)
political participation
gender stereotyping
internally displaced women
gender mainstreaming
militarization / armed conflict / peace
trafficking of women
rural women
human rights standards / national law implementation
indigenous women
women in prostitution
women and mass media / communications
women in prisons / women deprived of liberty
HIV / AIDS
solo parents
women and general health care
mental heallth
urban poor women
Total*
Frequency
28
20
17
17
17
15
16
13
12
10
10
9
9
9
8
8
6
5
4
4
3
3
2
1
1
248
* Total is more than 195 due multiple counts i.e. some literature intersects several issues, or women’s
social identities
4. The GBV Observatory: Challenges and Potentials
Gender-based violence is not a new issue. Yet it is still persistent feature in the lives of women,
whether in actuality or a possibliity as women navigate through and negotiate with social norms
which, for instance, hold them responsible for intimate partner violence and sexual abuse. The GBV
Observatory project aimed to refresh the issue by looking at it from another angle: information,
documentation and research. In doing so, it surfaced the following insights:
1. Documentation as point to service access.
2. Statistics on the number of GBV cases in the country reflects only reported and recorded
cases; there are reported GBV cases which are not recorded through mainstream systems.
3. Published data on GBV has focused on quantitative or quantifiable information, but there
are qualitative data also being documented especially at the local level.
4. Utilization of the data from various agencies in the form of researches and publications is
limited; making data available to a wider audience is also a gap.
Making Data Work for Women’s Human Rights
A Proposed Framework for the CHR Observatory on Gender-Based Violence
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