Women Peace Security Index 2021/22

This year’s global report, the third since the inaugural edition in 2017, finds a slowdown in the pace of improve- ment in the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Index and widening disparities across countries. [...] Comparing regions and countries: A snapshot in time All countries in the top dozen are The top dozen countries on the index are all in the Developed Country group (see developed appendix 2 in the full report for region and country groups). [...] Two of the four countries with the worst levels of violence in 2020— and indeed over the past decade — Afghanistan and Yemen, are also bottom ranked on the WPS Index. [...] The COVID pandemic and the Taliban takeover are now making the situation even worse for women and girls in the lowest-ranked country in the world. [...] .162 11 | WOMEN, PEACE, AND SECURITY INDEX 2021/22 SUMMARY High rates of organized violence Afghanistan’s lowest-ranking provinces are mainly in the southeastern areas, and violence in the home in where rates of organized violence and intimate partner violence were high.