Gender Based Violence (GBV) is a critical health, protection, power, and life-threatening issue in the Sahel. Conflict and displacement are driving escalating levels of sexual violence, intimate partner violence, child marriage, exploitation and abuse towards girls and women in the Sahel.
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Fact Sheet
Gender-based violence Girls’ and women’s rights In the central sahel
No. of pages: 5
Publication date: 11 November 2020
Publisher: UNFPA WCARO
Author: UNFPA WCARO