UNSD DESA

United Nations Statistics Division (Department for Economic and Social Affairs)
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UNAgency ID
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Policy Framework
The Beijing Platform for Action invited national, regional and international statistical services to develop improved data on the victims and perpetrators of all forms of violence against women (para. 206 (j)).
Background
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has four main functions: 1) the collection, processing and dissemination of statistical information; 2) the standardization of statistical methods, classifications and definitions; 3) implementation of the technical cooperation programme; and 4) the coordination of international statistical programmes and activities.
Resources

The World’s Women 2005: Progress in Statistics. United Nations New York, NY, with a section on violence against women

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/indwm/wwpub2005.htm


The World’s Women 2015: Trends and Statistics. United Nations New York, NY, with a section on violence against women

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/worldswomen.html

URL
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm
Mail Address
United Nations, New York, NY 10017. USA
Areas of Work
UNSD contributes to strengthening the knowledge base on violence against women through statistical analysis and dissemination. Its five-yearly publication, The World’s Women 2000: Trends and Statistics, contains a section on violence against women. The 2005 edition, The World’s Women: Progress in Statistics, describes the current state of statistics on violence against women and identifies gaps and challenges. Since February 2008, UNSD has supported the work of the United Nations Statistical Commission to develop an agreed set of indicators on violence against women.
Agency Type
SECRETARIAT
Title
United Nations Statistics Division (Department for Economic and Social Affairs)

Oct 2009 - Feb 2010 | UNSD DESA

A meeting of the Friends of the Chair group, organized by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía of Mexico and UNSD, took place in Mexico, in December 2009, on statistical indicators on violence against women. The meeting focused on the content of the recommended set of indicators, irrespective of the source of statistics; the list of indicators for statistical surveys on violence against women; and the future development of international statistical guidelines to conduct statistical surveys on violence against women.

Feb 2008 - Sept 2008 | UNSD DESA

The United Nations Statistical Commission, at its thirty-ninth session held in February 2008 in New York, approved the formation of a “Friends of the Chair” group to conduct an in-depth technical review of proposed indicators to measure violence against women, and requested the group to report back to the Commission at its fortieth session. The work of the group is based on the proceedings of the Expert Group Meeting on Indicators to Measure Violence against Women, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in October 2007.
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