GLOBAL DATABASE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLSCOUNTRY-PROFILEDEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGOMEASURESREVISED NATIONAL STRATEGY TO END SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
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Revised National Strategy to End Sexual and Gender-based Violence
Type of Measure
Policies > National strategy specific to violence against women
Form of Violence
Violence against women and girls; Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence; Sexual violence
Year
2020
Brief Description
In June 2015, the DRC's Ministry of Gender, Children and Family initiated a review of its national strategy to end sexual and gender-based violence, initially adopted in 2009, to take into account not only sexual violence but also other forms of gender-based violence, including domestic violence. The revised strategy adopted in 2020 a 5-year plan to reduce violence against women.
Source of Information

Democratic Republic of the Congo' submission for National Review for Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, Beijing+25, 2019, p.37.

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