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UNICEF's annual report highlights challenges faced by children worldwide, offering details on ongoing threats to girls and women on the issues of female genital mutilation and child marriage. The publication also offers data on the Global Gender Equality Thematic Fund, a funding mechanism used by UNICEF to strengthen systems, address urgent needs, and scale up successful initiatives focused on gender equality. 

This is a report by the United Nations Development Program, that provides Common standards designed and formulated to promote greater access to quality police and justice services for women and girls who have experienced gender-based or family violence. The Standards are intended to provide regional police and justice organizations with guidelines that can serve as a basis for their own approaches to addressing violence against women and girls and family violence, as well as strengthen their ability to positively influence the development and implementation of procedures followed by Caribbean States at the national level. 

Aproximadamente 1 de cada 3 mujeres y niñas mayores de 15 años han sufrido violencia física o sexual por parte de su pareja o violencia sexual fuera de la pareja a lo largo de su vida. Tanto el riesgo de violencia como los obstáculos a la hora de acceder a la atención y al apoyo son mayores para ciertos grupos de población, entre los que se encuentran las mujeres afrodescendientes, indígenas y de otros grupos étnicos de la Región. Este informe, publicado por la OPS/OMS, tiene como objetivos investigar este tema y, en base a los hallazgos, hacer un llamado a la acción a las partes interesadas de la Región de las Américas con el fin de prevenir este tipo de violencia

One in three women worldwide experience physical or sexual violence mostly by an intimate partner. Violence against women and girls is a human rights violation. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, emerging data and reports from those on the front lines, have shown that all types of violence against women and girls, particularly domestic violence, has intensified. This is the Shadow Pandemic growing amidst the COVID-19 crisis and we need a global collective effort to stop it. As COVID-19 cases continue to strain health services, essential services, such as domestic violence shelters and helplines, have reached capacity. More needs to be done to prioritize addressing violence against women in COVID-19 response and recovery efforts. Everyone has a role to play.

**UN Women is providing up-to-date information and supporting vital programmes to fight the Shadow Pandemic of violence against women during COVID-19.

The present study investigates the prevalence and incidence of violence against female micro-entrepreneurs in Ecuador. It then explains how this violence negatively affects Ecuador's economic development.