| Notes: | Title from home page (viewed on Mar. 26, 2009).
"All of us men and women, soldiers and peacekeepers, citizens and leaders have a responsibility to help end violence against women"-- UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon.
"Background: In December 2006, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a comprehensive resolution calling for an intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and requesting the Secretary-General to establish a coordinated database on the extent, nature and consequences of all forms of violence against women, and on the impact and effectiveness of policies and programmes for, including best practices in, combating such violence."--About the database
"The primary source of information for the database is the responses received from Member States to the questionnaire on violence against women, of September 2008, and subsequent updates. Other sources of information include: States parties' reports to human rights treaty bodies; Information provided by Member States in follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women (1995), for reports of the Secretary-General, and in statements made at the United Nations; Information available through relevant United Nations entities."--About the database
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Chiefly in English and/or the language in which information is submitted. Searches can be conducted in the six official languages of the United Nations: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
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