This simplified version of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was developed together with survivors of violence from Moldova. The guide contains only some CEDAW articles selected by women survivors of violence and are described from their point of view in order to help other women improve their knowledge and stand for their rights. More
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As a funding mechanism designed to support women-led and women’s rights organisations in crisis settings and following the invasion of the Ukraine by the Russian government in February 2022, UN Women Moldova has as of February 2023 signed partner agreements with 18 local and national civil society organizations (CSOs) and women’s rights organizations/women-led organizations to be supported by the WPHF, implementing overall 20 projects in 2022 and 2023.
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The Gender Task Force is a network of actors working to mainstream gender across the Moldova Refugee Response with the aim of ensuring that all persons in the Republic of Moldova affected by the Ukrainian refugee crisis, have equitable access to quality and targeted humanitarian assistance, and can meaningfully participate in an equitable, effective, and efficient response.
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The project seeks to facilitate an enabling environment for improved cross-river interconnection between communities and civil society, and foster social cohesion, by reducing tensions and enhancing mainstreaming of human rights and gender equality in the Transnistrian conflict settlement process.
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This brief presents the key conclusions and recommendations of the Country Portfolio Evaluation of the UN Women Moldova Country Office Strategic Note 2018–2022, conducted between December 2021 and June 2022. A Country Portfolio Evaluation is a systematic assessment of UN Women’s contribution to development results relating to gender equality and the empowerment of women at the country level and aims to contribute to the development of the Country Office’s next Strategic Note and to support decision-making and accountability.
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UN Women in Moldova is providing gender-responsive multi-sectoral services to individuals and communities most affected by the crisis in partnership with the Government, UN agencies, and specialized CSOs, in the framework of the Ukraine Refugee Response Plan 2023. This includes ensuring that refugee women, girls, men and boys have access to relevant, quality humanitarian assistance and support regardless of their sex, age, ability or status, and that their distinct needs, priorities and capacities are considered. It also involves assisting host communities who play an active role in welcoming and supporting refugees.
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The project will promote a gender-sensitive refugee response at the regional and country levels by advancing gender-sensitive programming, financing and coordination within and across UN agencies, regional inter-governmental bodies and refugee-response structures. It will accomplish this goal by addressing the gender-specific impacts of Ukraine’s humanitarian and refugee crisis while simultaneously ensuring that women and those at risk have strengthened access to protection services and resources.
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Based on preliminary data collection (a series of UN Women surveys) and meetings that UN Women had with women-led organizations in Moldova, the ongoing crisis is creating and exacerbating gender-specific risks and vulnerabilities and is resulting in higher scale of humanitarian needs among women, girls, men and boys.
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This is the third fact sheet that summarizes the results of displacement surveys initiated by IOM in partnership with UN Women to assess the needs and vulnerabilities of refugees and third-countries nationals fleeing into the Republic of Moldova from Ukraine. This report presents an analysis based on the 9,978 interviews conducted between 9 March
and 22 April 2022.
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This report is based on a survey of displacement patterns, needs and intentions commissioned by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in partnership
with UN Women. Face-to-face surveys were conducted by trained enumerators from CBS-AXA Research at entry, exit, transit points and accommodation centres
with Ukrainian refugees and third-country nationals.
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This report is based on a survey of displacement patterns, needs and intentions commissioned by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in partnership with UN Women.
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This factsheet provides up-to-date data about the demographic profiles of refugees from Ukraine hosted by the Republic of Moldova.
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This report analyses the peculiarities of sexual violence in the Republic of Moldova by connecting the national legislation in the area of prevention and combating sexual violence (SV) with international standards.
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On the global level, one in three girls will be affected by violence during her lifetime. In the Republic of Moldova, according to the study “Violence against women in the family” (NBS, 2011), 6 out of 10 women faced psychological, physical or sexual violence from their husbands or partners. And because violence is not only women’s issue, but of the entire society where this phenomenon exists, in 2019, UN Women Moldova aims to break the most common myths around violence...
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The Gender Barometer is the first comprehensive study in Moldova that addresses women's and men's involvement in politics and decision-making. The study was aimed to elucidate gender-specific challenges in politics (the general attitude towards the involvement of men and women in politics, in the life of the political parties, their intention to run, the specific challenges of the candidates, both men and women, in the election process, the activity of the local elected politician), as the decision making process (the level of information on the community development process, the local development priorities, the involvement on different stages of the decision making process). The research was carried out by the Partnership for Development Center, under the UN "Women in politics", program. The program is implemented by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in partnership with The East European Foundation and the Partnership for Development Center, with the financial support of the Swedish Government,
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Positive Champion - The person who broke the norm and found ways to achieve greater results with the same resources. This term was coined by the women from Moldova who overcame violence and who are helping other women do the same.
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The significant progress obtained in addressing the issue of family violence in the Republic of Moldova is a real fact. Nevertheless, a number of legal, institutional, and policy gaps still persist and need to be tackled. In this context, it is very important to have data and evidence on the prevalence of violence against women, the factors determining this phenomenon, as well as the impact of violence on the health and well-being of women and on the family in general.