Commonwealth Says NO MORE has created a library of resources, important documents, and research in order to share good practice, member country information, and an avenue to learn more about domestic and sexual violence.
Commonwealth VAWG
The Economic, Youth & Sustainable Development Directorate has responsibility for Gender for the Commonwealth of Nations. This includes VAWG initiatives with the mission to advance gender equality, women鈥檚 rights and women鈥檚 empowerment in all social, economic and political spheres.
Within the Directorate, Gender provides technical assistance to member countries to support skills training and capacity building initiatives, monitoring and evaluation and high level advocacy, research and knowledge generation and lead the way for building consensus on key global priorities for gender equality for the Commonwealth.
This work centres on key aspects of human development towards the achievement of the Commonwealth鈥檚 priorities on gender equality: (i) women in leadership; (ii) women鈥檚 economic empowerment; (iii) ending violence against women and girls; and (iv) gender and climate change; the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, and global, regional and national commitments on gender equality and overall empowerment of women.
There are three inter-linked functions to the gender work:
- Promoting women鈥檚 rights and gender equality in Commonwealth countries through advocacy, policy advice, capacity building, and technical assistance.
- Convening policy dialogue and consensus building through triennial meetings of Commonwealth Ministers responsible for Women鈥檚 Affairs, annual meetings of Commonwealth Women鈥檚 National Machineries and the Commonwealth Women鈥檚 Forum.
- Leading and coordinating policies, systems and mechanisms for effective gender mainstreaming.
Key documents
Legal Resources on VAWG
Please find below PDFs on the judicial books on VAW produced in collaboration with UN Women, Rule of Law and HRU
- jurisdictions, launched by the Secretary-General at 11WAMM, hosted by the Government of Samoa in September 2016.
- in partnership with UN Women Regional Office for Asia-Pacific, also launched by the SG on International Day for the Elimination of VAW, Nov 2018.
- , launched by the Secretary-General at 12WAMM, hosted by the Government of Kenya, September 2019.
