Recommendations: MDG 3 – Violence Against Women

Discussion Highlights

  • Discovering what each sector is doing to eradicate violence against women e.g. respectful relationships, ensuring knowledge for church leaders & promoting women’s leadership
  • Sectors are already working together however this can further supported
  • Focused on 2 key issues – ensuring adequate legal frameworks and engaging men and boys and key priorities within these areas
  • Small actions result in large movements
  • Ensuring that discussions on violence against women include all forms of violence

Actions

  • Empowering individual actions – micro-movements
  • Continuing to work on shifting violence against women out of the private sphere
  • Working on the prevention of violence against women in conflict and post-conflict situations

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