Violence Against Women, Haiti & other topics - Daily Press Briefing | United Nations

Noon Briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Highlights:

- Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Haiti
Secretary-General Travel
Climate
Plastic Pollution
Anti-Personnel Mines
Lebanon
Lebanon/OCHA
Syria
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Middle East
Sudan
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ukraine
Phillipines
New Resident Coordinator – Côte d’Ivoire
Guests
Palestinian People   

Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Today, 25 November, is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. In his message, the Secretary-General said that it’s been almost thirty years since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action promised to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls. It’s beyond time to deliver, he said.
And, on this occasion, today, the guests at the noon briefing were the Deputy Executive Director of UN Women Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda; along with Delphine Schantz, the Director of the New York office for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime; and Kalliopi Mingeirou, the Chief of the Ending Violence against Women Section of UN Women.
They presented the report “Femicides in 2023: Global estimates of intimate partner/family member femicides.”

Haiti
In Haiti, on this International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is reiterating that the current crisis is having a disproportionate impact on women and girls in Haiti.
According to UN partners, between January and October of this year, 5,400 incidents of gender-based violence were reported, although the true figure is likely to be much higher.
Critical services for survivors of gender-based violence, as well as for sexual and reproductive health, remain severely underfunded in Haiti.
The UN Population Fund, UNFPA, has secured just 19 per cent of the funding required for those services in 2024 —that is $5.4 million in the bank out of the needed $28 million—leaving obviously significant gaps in addressing these urgent needs.
UNICEF reports today that the number of children recruited by armed gangs in Haiti has surged by 70 per cent over the past year, with some recruits as young as eight years old.
It is estimated that minors make up between 30 and 50 per cent of all members of these groups. This is obviously an alarming trend, which is fueled by the closure of many schools, as well as displacement, leaving children increasingly alone and vulnerable.

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