New partnership between UNFPA, Rutgers University aims to end gender-based violence

UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) from Rutgers University to work towards eliminating all forms of gender-based violence. The agreement will support the organizations’ goals of achieving sexual and reproductive health for all, promoting gender equality and protecting human rights.

The partnership will expand discourse on women’s human rights, and influence policy, processes and practice in the field. Its activities will include working with news media to raise awareness and enhance global discourse about gender-based violence and building a knowledge base on the links between sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence, economic policy and other relevant issues.

“We at UNFPA welcome this partnership with the Center for Women’s Global Leadership, which has played such a pivotal role in raising awareness and driving action to end gender-based violence around the world. Through greater collaboration with strategic partners like CWGL, we will ensure that every woman and girl can live free of discrimination and violence and exercise her right to sexual and reproductive health,” said Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of UNFPA.

CWGL, a feminist human rights organization affiliated with the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University (USA), is the founder and coordinator of the Global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign, which has been implemented in over 180 countries by more than 6,000 organizations.

Original source: UNFPA
Published on 19 December 2019