Equally Safe 2023 - preventing and eradicating violence against women and girls: strategy

Footnotes

1. Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs of UN DESA, https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2023/09/press-release-the-world-is-failing-girls-and-women-according-to-new-un-report/

2. Scottish Government (2022). Misogyny – A Human Rights Issue

3. ibid

4. Open University (2023). OU research reveals shocking level of online violence experienced by women and girls across the UK

5. Scottish Government (2022). Misogyny – A Human Rights Issue

6. Children’s Commissioner for England (2023). Evidence on pornography’s influence on harmful sexual behaviour among children

7. Fritz, N., Malic, V., Paul, B., Zhou, Y. (2020). A descriptive analysis of the types, targets, and relative frequency of aggression in mainstream pornography. Arch Sex Behav. 49(8): 3041-3053. DOI:10.1007/s10508-020-01773-0

8. Children’s Commissioner for England (2023). Evidence on pornography’s influence on harmful sexual behaviour among children

9. Scottish Government (2022). Misogyny – A Human Rights Issue

10. UN. General Assembly (48th sess. : 1993-1994) Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly. [New York] : UN, 23 Feb. 1994.

11. Lang, J. (2002) Keynote address to The International Conference on Eradicating Violence Against Women and Girls – Strengthening Human Rights. (Berlin, 2002).

12. We have extended our definition of VAWG to recognise the UN Special Rapporteur on VAWG who issued a general statement on online violence in 2018 which includes: “The definition of online violence against women therefore extends to any act of gender-based violence against women that is committed, assisted or aggravated in part or fully by the use of ICT, such as mobile phones and smartphones, the Internet, social media platforms or email, against a woman because she is a woman, or affects women disproportionately.”

13. UN. General Assembly (48th sess. : 1993-1994) Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly. [New York] : UN, 23 Feb. 1994.

14. See gender pay gap national performance framework indicator: National Indicator Performance

15. Public Health Scotland (2023) Minority Ethnic women and violence against women and girls: Insights gathering project Available at: https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/minority-ethnic-women-and-violence-against-women-and-girls-insights-gathering-project

16. Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities (SCLD) (2023). Unequal, Unheard, Unjust: But Not Hidden Anymore

17. LGBT Youth Scotland (2022). Life in Scotland for LGBT young people

18. Kingston, S & Smith, N 2020, ‘Sex counts: an examination of sexual service advertisements in a UK online directory’, British Journal of Sociology, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 328-348. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12727

19. Transport Scotland (2023) Women’s and girls’ views and experiences of personal safety when using public transport. Available at: https://www.transport.gov.scot/media/52984/womens-and-girls-views-and-experiences-of-personal-safety-when-using-public-transport-final-report-march-2023.pdf

20. http://mwrc.org.uk

21. Public Health Scotland (2023) Minority Ethnic women and violence against women and girls: Insights gathering project Available at: https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/minority-ethnic-women-and-violence-against-women-and-girls-insights-gathering-project

22. Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities (SCLD) (2023). Unequal, Unheard, Unjust: But Not Hidden Anymore

23. ibid

24. Sereda Briefing (2021). The SEREDA project: highlighting the continuum of SGBV in forced migration

25. Public Health Scotland (2023) Minority Ethnic women and violence against women and girls: Insights gathering project Available at: https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/minority-ethnic-women-and-violence-against-women-and-girls-insights-gathering-project

26. LGBT Youth Scotland (no date). Voices Unheard: LGBT domestic abuse and gender-based violence

27. Oram, S., Khalifeh, H. and Howard, LM. (2017). Violence against women and mental health. The Lancet Psychiatry 4(2):159–170. In World Health Organization (2021) Violence against women factsheet

28. Agenda Alliance (2016). Hidden Hurt: violence, abuse and disadvantage in the lives of women

29. Scottish Government (2022). The experiences of people who sell or exchange sex and their interaction with support services: lived experience engagement

30. Improvement Service (2021). Understanding the mental health needs of women and girls experiencing gender-based violence

31. Women’s Justice Leadership Panel (2023). The Case for Gendered and Intersectional Approaches to Justice

32. Royal College of Midwives and Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (2020): Joint policy statement on domestic abuse

33. Public Health Scotland (2022) Scotland’s public health priorities and violence against women and girls Priority 5: A Scotland where we have a sustainable, inclusive economy with equality of outcomes for all

34. What is economic abuse? - Surviving Economic Abuse (2023).

35. SCCJR (2023). Executive summary: domestic abuse and child contact

36. Scottish Government (2023) Children’s Social Work Statistics Scotland: 2021 to 2022. https://www.gov.scot/publications/childrens-social-work-statistics-scotland-2021-22/

37. Girlguiding (2023). Girls’ attitudes survey

38. Girl aged 7 to 10. Girlguiding (2023). Girls’ attitudes survey

39. Official Statistics. Forced Marriage Unit statistics 2022

40. Improvement Service (2021). Elected Member Briefing Note. Tackling violence against women and girls: what about the men?

41. Improvement Service (2021). Understanding the mental health needs of women and girls experiencing gender-based violence

42. Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities (SCLD) (2023). Unequal, Unheard, Unjust: But Not Hidden Anymore

43. Scottish Government (2022). The experiences of people who sell or exchange sex and their interaction with support services: lived experience engagement

44. Everyday Heroes Justice Report

45. Engender (2020). A Woman’s Place: gender, housing and homelessness in Scotland

46. Scottish Government (2022) Vision for Justice https://www.gov.scot/publications/vision-justice-scotland/

47. Anonymous, YELLO!, the young expert group in the Improving Justice (IJCC) in Child Contact, January 2021.

48. Scottish Government (2022) National Strategy for Community Justice

49. Transport Scotland (2023). Women and girls’ safety on public transport

50. Implementing Safe & Together in Scotland: year two learning report

51. WALDEN, I. & WALL, L. 2014. Reflecting on primary prevention of violence against women: the public health approach, Australian Centre for the Study of Sexual Assault.