Violence Against Women

The focus of this project was to estimate the prevalence of sexual harassment and bullying against women in the workplace across four countries: Benin, Honduras, Indonesia, and Moldova.

Project Description

The project focused on assessing to which extent working women faced with violence at the workplace in four countries: Honduras, Indonesia, Moldova, and Benin.

Based on the research proposal of CNV Internationaal and the subsequent discussions, researchers of the University of Amsterdam drafted a set of questions for the national researchers and provided a list of relevant definitions. Research team members answered the research questions for each of the four countries at stake by means of desk research, (telephone) interviews with key persons and national experts, and reviewing newspapers, trade union and other reports concerning this topic. The analysis started with the legal framework concerning violence at work, and provided an overview of the institutional responses to this phenomenon.

Although data on the incidence of violence against women at work are mostly quite scarce, this project tried to estimate the frequencies of these types of violence in the countries at stake.

Objectives

The project aimed at gaining a better insight into the extent to which working women are facing violence at work.
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Legal framework
Provide a description of the legal framework concerning violence at work and an overview of an overview of the institutional responses to this phenomenon.
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Collective Agreements
Identify and analyse relevant clauses concerning violence against women at the workplace.
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Phenomenon Estimation
Provide an overview of the incidence of violence against women at the workplace, if available based on statistical sources.

Role WageIndicator

- WageIndicatoir provided the legal framework concerning violence against women at work based on the information from the team members and on the labour law pages of www.WageIndicator.org

- WageIndicator also provided additional information about collective agreements in the four countries.

Publications and Resources

Read the report to gain a better insight into the extent to which working women face violence at work in four countries.
Report: Violence Against Women at the Workplace

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