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Vienna +10: Speak Out – Help Shape the Future of Women's Human Rights

Basic Information on the Survey

Total Responses: 146 organizations, approximately 10% response rate

Areas of Interest (% of all respondents)
Violence Against Women 77%
Socio-Economic Rights 53%
Development 52%
Health and Reproductive Rights 52%
Trafficking 46%
Sexual Rights 44%
Conflict 41%

By Region (total number of respondents)
North America 50
Africa 25
Asia/Pacific 24
West Europe 24
Caribbean/Latin America 11
Central East Europe/Central Asia 10
Middle East 4

Sources
Women's Human Rights Alert List 27%
16 Days Listserv 20%
UN Related Contacts 16.4%
Women's Global Leadership Institute Graduates 9.5%
General Alert List 7.5%
Sexual & Reproductive Rights Contacts 3.4%
Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice (WICEJ) Contacts 2.7%

Top Advances in Women's Human Rights in past 10 years, Internationally, Regionally
Appointment of UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women 34%
Expansion of women's political participation, appointed and elected 31%
Recognition of gender and violence against women in armed conflict and in the processes of the International Criminal Court 28%
Improved laws on violence against women 26%
Public recognition of violence against women 19%

Most Notable Breakthroughs in the Work of your Organization
Legal and public recognition of violence against women 70%
Implementation of Government Accountability for Violence Against Women 22%
Women's Organizing on Violence Against Women 16%
Recognition of women's sexual and reproductive rights 15%
Increases in women's political participation 12%

Outline of Findings

Identifying Major Challenges for Women's Human Rights Movement in Your Country and Internationally (three most frequent topics)
  • Influencing Governments and Government Institutions
  • Fundamentalisms Backlash and Conservatism
  • Lack of Women's Political Participation

Next Steps to Address the Challenges in five years (responses to key topics)

  • Government Implementation/Laws and Government Accountability
  • Issues
  • Fundamentalism, Conservatism, Backlash
  • Political Participation
  • Organizing, Capacity Building, Networks, Women's Movement Education, Awareness, Advocacy

Forms of Violence (individual responses)

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