Alessandra Guedes 25 November 2019 Cambridge

1. Violence Against Women
and Violence Against
Children – The Points
of Intersection
Alessandra Guedes
Manager, Gender and Development Research
UNICEF Office of Research Innocenti - Florence, Italy
Source: Alessandra Guedes, Sarah Bott, Claudia Garcia-Moreno
& Manuela Colombini (2016) Bridging the gaps: a global review
of intersections of violence against women and violence against
children, Global Health Action, 9:1, 31516, DOI:
10.3402/gha.v9.31516

2. Intersections between VAW and VAC
1 SHARED RISK FACTORS
2 SOCIAL NORMS
3 CO-OCCURRENCE
4 INTER-GENERATIONAL EFFECTS
5 COMMON & COMPOUNDING CONSEQUENCES
6 ADOLESCENCE

3. 4
INTER-GENERATIONAL EFFECTS
% of ever pregnant women who reported physical violence during
pregnancy (by any perpetrator), select LAC countries
Source:
Unpublished
analysis by
PAHO/WHO of
nationally
representative
household
surveys
7.1
9.5
4.2
6.0
9.2
5.7
7.0
7.4
9.7
7.1
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
Trinidad & Tobago 2017
Peru 2017
Panama 2009
Jamaica 2016
Honduras 2011/12
Haiti 2016/17
Guatemala 2014/15
Dominican Republic 2013
Colombia 2015
Belize 2015
Percent

4. 4
INTER-GENERATIONAL EFFECTS
characteristics of physical violence during pregnancy among women
in Trinidad & Tobago who have experienced physical IPV during pregnancy
Source:
Women’s
Health
Survey,
Trinidad and
Tobago 2017

5. Source: WHO

6. Collaborative solutions
Implement and
enforce laws
Change social
norms
Coordinate
prevention and
response
Integrate gender
socialization into
parenting and
homem visitation
Integrate a
gender
perspective into
microfinance
programs

7. Suggestions for Evidence for Better Lives Study
• Ensure that women‘s health and wellbeing are given
equal consideration to that of children – careful not
to take an instrumentalist approach
• Avoid terminologies, such as “unborn child“ &
“violence against mothers“ – could be detrimental to
SRHR efforts
• Measure sexual violence within context of women’s
exposure to violence in childhood
• Assess laws related to VAW, as well as VAC
Look for opportunities to increase coordination across
VAW/VAC:
• Ensure that efforts to change acceptability of
corporal punishment, also challenge acceptability of
wife abuse
• Promote the integration of material on gender
socialization within parenting programs
• Increase coordination between services for survivors
of VAC and VAW
Area of
overlapping
interests
“win-win”
VAC VAW

8. Thank you
Alessandra Guedes
aguedes@unicef.org
@Alesscguedes