Global Database on Violence against Women
Tuvalu
Prevalence Data on Different Forms of Violence against Women:
Lifetime Physical and/or Sexual Intimate Partner Violence :37 % (1)
Physical and/or Sexual Intimate Partner Violence in the last 12 months : 25 % (2)
Lifetime Non-Partner Sexual Violence : Official National Statistics Not Available
Child Marriage :10 % (3)
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)
Tuvalu Search Data
1 - 10 of 19 ResultsSection 18 of the Constitution
Tuvalu | 2010
Type of Measure : Violence against women > Constitutional provision
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
Section 19 of the Constitution
Tuvalu | 2010
Type of Measure : Violence against women > Constitutional provision
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
Police Powers and Duties Act
Tuvalu | 2009
Type of Measure : Violence against women > Legislation
Form of Violence : Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence
International Womens Day and White Ribbons Day
Tuvalu | 2009
Type of Measure : Prevention > Awareness-raising /Campaigns
Form of Violence : Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence
Family Protection and Domestic Violence Bill
Tuvalu | 2009
Type of Measure : Violence against women > Legislation
Form of Violence : Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence
16 Days of Activism on the Elimination of Violence against Women
Tuvalu | 2009
Type of Measure : Prevention > Awareness-raising /Campaigns
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
Marriage Act
Tuvalu | 2008
Type of Measure : Violence against women > Legislation
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls, Child, early and forced marriage
Article 129 of the Penal Code (Punitive Actions against Rape)
Tuvalu | 2008
Type of Measure : Violence against women > Legislation
Form of Violence : Sexual violence
Article 134 of the Penal Code (Preventing the Rape of Girls under 13 Years of Age)
Tuvalu | 2008
Type of Measure : Violence against women > Legislation
Form of Violence : Sexual violence
(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: Central Statistics Division, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Asian Development Bank and Macro International Inc., 2009. Tuvalu Demographic and Health Survey 2007. Noumea, New Caledonia.
(2) Proportion of ever-partnered women aged 15-49 years experiencing intimate partner physical and/or sexual violence in the last 12 months. Source: Central Statistics Division, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Asian Development Bank and Macro International Inc., 2009. Tuvalu Demographic and Health Survey 2007. Noumea, New Caledonia.
(3) 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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