The present report presents the Secretary-General’s strategy to improve the Organization’s system-wide approach to preventing and responding to sexual exploitation and abuse. The strategy focuses on four main areas of action: putting victims first; ending impunity; engaging civil society and external partners; and improving strategic communications for education and transparency. Pursuant to General Assembly resolutions 57/306 and 70/286, the report also provides data on allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse across the United Nations system and by non-United Nations international forces authorized by a Security Council mandate. The data cover the period from 1 January to 31 December 2016. The proposed actions by the General Assembly are set out in section VIII of the present report. Information on the related estimated resource requirements and the funding arrangements thereof is set out in the addendum to the present report (A/71/818/Add.1). The estimated resource requirements within the current budget periods will be absorbed within existing approved resources and consequently will not give rise to additional resource requirements under the approved programme budget for the biennium 2016-2017 or the budgets for peacekeeping operations for the financial period 2017/18.
This document outlines a module for a training workshop on gender-based violence, which focuses on sexual abuse and exploitation. Facilitators are expected to take specific modules and adapt them to their needs and the context where the training is taking place (objectives, profile of participants, office and national culture and time available etc.).
On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2013, the Middle East Program at the Wilson Center invited a cross-section of women activists, politicians, academics, and entrepreneurs to give us their views on the challenge’s women face to their security. 42 women from 20 countries including the United States, Malaysia, Indonesia, and countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region shared with us their concerns, disappointments, and hopes for women.
