Global Database on Violence against Women
Comoros
Prevalence Data on Different Forms of Violence against Women:
Lifetime Physical and/or Sexual Intimate Partner Violence :6 % (1)
Physical and/or Sexual Intimate Partner Violence in the last 12 months : 5 % (2)
Lifetime Non-Partner Sexual Violence : 2 % (3)
Child Marriage :32 % (4)
Reports submitted by UN Human Rights Bodies:
Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
Comoros Search Data
1 - 10 of 15 ResultsThe Group on Follow-up to the Commitments of the Government relating to Human Trafficking
| 2013
Type of Measure : Institutional mechanisms
Form of Violence : Trafficking
Enquête Démographique et de Santé et à Indicateurs Multiples (EDSC-MICS II) 2012
| 2012
Type of Measure : Research and statistical data > Violence against women module in survey
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
National Round Tables on Sexual and all other forms of Violence
Comoros | 2012
Type of Measure : Prevention > Awareness-raising /Campaigns
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
Le Commissariat Général en charge de la Solidarité et de la Promotion du Genre (CGG)
| 2011
Type of Measure : Institutional mechanisms
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
Promoting Gender Equity through the Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy Paper
| 2009
Type of Measure : Policies > Inclusion of violence against women in other national plan/strategy
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
Ratio of Women Subjected to Verbal, Physical or Sexual Violence
| 2009
Type of Measure : Research and statistical data > Other research and statistical data
Form of Violence : Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence, Sexual violence, Violence against women and girls
The National Policy on Gender Equality and Equity
Comoros | 2008
Type of Measure : Policies > Inclusion of violence against women in other national plan/strategy
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
La Direction Nationale de la Promotion du Genre
| 2006 | 2011
Type of Measure : Institutional mechanisms
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
The Preamble of the Constitution
| 2001
Type of Measure : Violence against women > Constitutional provision
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
Article 51 of the Family Code (Equality Between Spouses)
Comoros | 2001
Type of Measure : Other relevant laws > Family law
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
(1) Proportion of ever-partnered women aged 15-49 years experiencing intimate partner physical and/or sexual violence at least once in their lifetime. Source: Direction Générale de la Statistique et de la Prospective (DGSP) et ICF International, 2014. Enquête Démographique et de Santé et à Indicateurs Multiples aux Comores 2012. Rockville, MD 20850, USA : DGSP et ICF International.
(2) Proportion of ever-partnered women aged 15-49 years experiencing intimate partner physical and/or sexual violence in the last 12 months. Source: Direction Générale de la Statistique et de la Prospective (DGSP) et ICF International, 2014. Enquête Démographique et de Santé et à Indicateurs Multiples aux Comores 2012. Rockville, MD 20850, USA : DGSP et ICF International.
(3) Proportion of women aged 15–49 years experiencing sexual violence perpetrated by someone other than an intimate partner at least once in their lifetime. Source: Direction Générale de la Statistique et de la Prospective (DGSP) et ICF International, 2014. Enquête Démographique et de Santé et à Indicateurs Multiples aux Comores 2012. Rockville, MD 20850, USA : DGSP et ICF International.
(4) Percentage of women aged 20 to 24 years who were first married or in union before age 18. Source: UNICEF global databases, 2018, based on Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and other nationally representative surveys.
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