Country | Bhutan |
Year | 2016 - 2017 |
Type of Measure | Prevention > Awareness-raising /Campaigns |
Form of Violence | Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence |
Besides the regular awareness programmes by relevant government and non-government agencies, a nation-wide high-level advocacy programme led by Her Majesty Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck, the Goodwill Ambassador of UNFPA, was conducted in all 20 dzongkhags in 2016 and 2017 on reproductive health, gender-based violence, child rights issues such as child marriage, teenage pregnancy and services for women and children in difficult circumstance.