CEVAW Analysis
Books, Articles and PhDs
This article introduces the global Women’s Safety Index (WSI), outlining its rationale, purpose, and potential applications. The Index consist of three dimensions: Equity, Protection, and Resources, identified as foundational to women’s safety.
Fiji endures one of the world’s highest rates of gender-based violence (GBV), with two in three women experiencing physical or sexual abuse from a male intimate partner. Entrenched colonial legacies, harmful social norms, and economic inequalities fuel this crisis, normalizing the violence and silencing its survivors.
Drawing on gender policy reform theories and global evidence, we analyse how gender mainstreaming has been implemented to inform and drive VAW policy adoption and implementation.
CEVAW Insights
Long after they disappear from the headlines, war and conflict continue to shape the lives of those who lived through them – including how people think about violence inside the home.
Reports & Resources
This paper examines the dynamic impact of natural disasters on the individual acceptance of a physical form of intimate partner violence (IPV).
CEVAW Conversations Podcasts
New CEVAW research is revealing how childhood experiences shape the long-term risk of violence against women. Drawing on historical data from the Vietnam War and a longitudinal study tracking young people in Fiji and Vietnam, this episode surfaces findings that challenge the scale and ambition of current policy responses. Three researchers discuss what the evidence demands – and why we haven't built it yet.
Evidence, ideas and experts working to end violence against women – across systems, contexts and communities.
Videos
Phil Doan Pham examines how exposure to the Vietnam War during childhood shapes attitudes towards domestic violence decades later.
Yadanar Yadanar reviews school-based interventions to prevent violence against girls in low- and middle-income countries.
Dyah Pritadrajati examines how family size influences intimate partner violence in Samoa, finding that each additional child significantly increases IPV risk.