Increase in legal rights
GENDER EQUALITY RESULT
Increase in legal rights
INDICATOR(S)
Number of legal instruments drafted, proposed, or adopted with (X agency's) assistance designed to improve prevention of or response to sexual and gender-based violence at the national or sub-national level
Notes:
"Legal instrument" is meant broadly to include any official document issued by a government (e.g., law, policy, action plan, constitutional amendment, decree, strategy, regulation) designed to improve prevention of and response to sexual and gender-based violence at the national or sub-national level.
Gender-based violence (GBV) is an umbrella term for any harmful act that is perpetrated against a person’s will, and that is based on socially ascribed gender norms and roles. Forms of gender-based violence include, but are not limited to, domestic or intimate partner violence; rape as a weapon of war; sexual violence and abuse; female infanticide; psychological or emotional abuse; sexual harassment or violence in the workplace or in educational institutions; harmful traditional practices including female genital mutilation/cutting, honor crimes, early marriage, forced marriage, bride kidnapping, and dowry-related violence; and violence based on sexual orientation or gender identity (SOGI).
To be counted, the legal instrument should address an aspect of the country’s efforts to combat GBV, for example by spelling out individuals’ rights to be free from violence in the public and/or private spheres; presenting a National Action Plan, strategy, or stand-alone law designed to address GBV; proposing or strengthening procedures to prevent, punish or eradicate gender-based violence; making provisions for new or increased services to victims of violence; proposing new legal remedies for addressing GBV such as the use of restraining orders or establishing new legal procedures that allow for the provision of services by NGOs.
