Gabon

Prevalence Data on Different Forms of Violence against Women:

Lifetime Physical and/or Sexual Intimate Partner Violence :48.6 % ⁽¹⁾

Physical and/or Sexual Intimate Partner Violence in the last 12 months : 31.5 % ⁽²⁾

Lifetime Non-Partner Sexual Violence : 5 % ⁽³⁾

Child Marriage :21.9 % ⁽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)

Gender Equality Indexes:

Gender Inequality Index Rank :140 ⁽⁵⁾

Global Gender Gap Index Rank :121 ⁽⁶⁾

Gabon Search Data

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Loi n°38/2008 du 29 janvier 2009 (Lutte et Prévention Contre les Mutilations Génitales Féminines)

Gabon | 2009

Type of Measure : Violence against women > Legislation

Form of Violence : Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C)

Child Trafficking (Act No. 09/2004 and Decree No. 000024/PR/PME)

Gabon | 2005

Type of Measure : Violence against women > Legislation

Form of Violence : Trafficking

Article 20 of Act. 09/2004 of 21 September 2004 (Trafficking Children)

Gabon | 2004

Type of Measure : Violence against women > Legislation

Form of Violence : Trafficking

Act No 2496 of 6 January 1996

Gabon | 1996

Type of Measure : Violence against women > Legislation

Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls

Civil Code (Child, Early, or Forced Marriage)

Gabon | 1972

Type of Measure : Violence against women > Legislation

Form of Violence : Child, early and forced marriage

Article 235 of the Penal Code (Violence against Children)

Gabon | 1963

Type of Measure : Violence against women > Legislation

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 (DGS) et ICF International, 2013. Enquête Démographique et de Santé du Gabon 2012. Calverton, Maryland, et Libreville, Gabon: DGS 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 (DGS) et ICF International, 2013. Enquête Démographique et de Santé du Gabon 2012. Calverton, Maryland, et Libreville, Gabon: DGS 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 (DGS) et ICF International, 2013. Enquête Démographique et de Santé du Gabon 2012. Calverton, Maryland, et Libreville, Gabon: DGS 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, 2021, based on DHS, MICS and other nationally representative surveys.

⁽⁵⁾ The Gender Inequality Index is a composite measure reflecting inequality between women and men in three different dimensions: reproductive health (maternal mortality ratio and adolescent birth rate), empowerment (share of parliamentary seats held by women and share of population with at least some secondary education), and labour market participation (labour force participation rate). Source: United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 2021/2022.

⁽⁶⁾ The Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political, education and health criteria. Source: World Economic Forum, the Global Gender Gap Report 2022.