A GUIDE TO BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND USING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

18 A G U I D E T O B E T T E R U N D E R S T A N D I N G A N D U S I N G V I O L E N C E A G A I N S T W O M E N P R E V A L E N C E D A T A The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has made monitoring of VAW a must, not a choice.3 Having data at the national level about the prevalence of VAW is the first step to understanding how to end it. [...] Nauru © UNFPA A G U I D E T O B E T T E R U N D E R S T A N D I N G A N D U S I N G V I O L E N C E A G A I N S T W O M E N P R E V A L E N C E D A T A 39 The 11 countries are in Melanesia – Fiji, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu; in Micronesia – Kiribati, the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI), the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Nauru and Palau; and in Polynesia – the Cook Islands, Samoa an. [...] Pacific violence against women highest in the world! A G U I D E T O B E T T E R U N D E R S T A N D I N G A N D U S I N G V I O L E N C E A G A I N S T W O M E N P R E V A L E N C E D A T A 41 Figure 5 shows that lifetime prevalence rates of physical and/or sexual violence by a partner and/or a non-partner for women in all Pacific countries are above the global average of one in three women exper. [...] 58 A G U I D E T O B E T T E R U N D E R S T A N D I N G A N D U S I N G V I O L E N C E A G A I N S T W O M E N P R E V A L E N C E D A T A In countries where the rates of sexual violence as part of IPV and non-partner violence are high, policies and interventions could consider addressing this through sexual and reproductive health services for women, including rape care, while prevention interv. [...] A G U I D E T O B E T T E R U N D E R S T A N D I N G A N D U S I N G V I O L E N C E A G A I N S T W O M E N P R E V A L E N C E D A T A 59 Final reflections on what quantitative and qualitative data can teach us on marital rape In this case study, which is meant to advance our understanding of IPV and marital rape in the Pacific, we used high-quality, comparable survey data, and the evidence tha.