This week, UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women and UN Volunteers released unprecedented data from a multi-country study in the Asia-Pacific region, with the title: “Why Do Some Men Use Violence Against Women and How Can We Prevent It? Quantitative Findings from the United Nations Multi-country Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific”.
The study has found, inter alia, that: “violence against women is fundamentally about pervasive gender inequality between women and men […] Many factors associated with violence perpetration reflect influential narratives of masculinities that justify and celebrate toughness, heterosexual performance, men’s control over women and a capacity for violence. Men’s experiences of violence particularly as children are strongly associated with their perpetration of violence against women, suggesting that addressing men’s own experiences of violence is one strategy to prevent the cycle of violence.”
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