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School-Based Violence Prevention: A Practical Handbook Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: World Health Organization (WHO) School-based violence prevention: a practical handbook is a World Health Organization (WHO) resource for school officials and educators to help prevent violence in and around schools. The handbook gives advice on how schools can embed violence prevention within their routine activities and across the points of interaction schools provide with children, parents and other community members. 
Our creative diversity: report of the world commission on culture and development; summary version Year of publication: 1996 Corporate author: World Commission on Culture and Development This report is designed to address a diversified audience across the world that ranges from community activists, field workers, artists and scholars to government officials and politicians. We want it to inform the world’s opinion leaders and to guide its policy-makers. We want it to capture the attention of the world’s intellectual and artistic communities, as well as the general public. We aim to have shown them how culture shapes all our thinking, imagining and behaviour. It is the transmission of behaviour as well as a dynamic source for change, creativity, freedom and the awakening of innovative opportunities. For groups and societies, culture is energy, inspiration and empowerment, as well as the knowledge and acknowledgment of diversity: if cultural diversity is ‘behind us, around us and before us”, as Claude L&i-Strauss put it, we must learn how to let it lead not to the clash of cultures, but to their fruitful coexistence and to intercultural harmony. Just as in the tasks of building peace and consolidating democratic values, an indivisible set of goals, so too economic and political rights cannot be realized separately from social and cultural rights. The challenge to humanity is to adopt new ways of thinking, new ways of acting, new ways of organizing itself in society, in short, new ways of living. The challenge is also to promote different paths of development, informed by a recognition of how cultural factors shape the way in which societies conceive their own futures and choose the means to attain these futures. I have for some time been concerned with the “culture of peace”. There is now considerable evidence that neglect of human development has been one of the principal causes of wars and internal armed conflicts, and that these, in turn, retard human development. With government complicity and with the intention of raising export receipts, private businesses continue to sell advanced military technology, nuclear materials and equipment for the production of bacteriological and chemical warfare. The concept of state sovereignty which still prevails today has increasingly come under scrutiny. In the area of peace-keeping, the distinction between external aggression and internal oppression is often unrealistic. The predominant threat to stability are violent conflicts within countries and not between them. There is an urgent need to strengthen international human rights law. Many of the most serious troubles come from within states – either because of ethnic strife or repressive measures by governments. Conditions that lead to tyranny and large-scale violations of human rights at home sooner or later are likely to spill over into a search for enemies abroad. The temptation of repressive states to export internal difficulties is great. Consider the Soviet Union’s invasion of Hungary and Czechoslovakia after it had used domestic oppression and the persistent refusal - for many years - of the previous South African governments to grant independence to Namibia. An ounce of prevention is better than a ton of punishment. 
RESPECT Women: Preventing Violence Against Women Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: World Health Organization (WHO) Violence against women and girls remains pervasive across the world, despite significant efforts being made to recognize, eliminate, and prevent it in all its forms. Eliminating violence against women and girls is pivotal to achieving gender equality, women’s empowerment, and the Sustainable Development Goals. Elimination can only be done through prevention. Successful prevention requires: political commitment and leadership,implementing laws and policies that promote gender equality,investing in women’s organizations,allocating resources to prevention, andaddressing the multiple forms of discrimination women face daily. Based on the principles of respect and equality, and lessons learned from evidence-based results on what works in preventing violence from occurring and recurring, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Women, in collaboration with ten other UN, bilateral, and multilateral agencies, have developed “RESPECT Women: Preventing violence against women”. This publication provides a comprehensive framework to inform policy makers and implementers about designing, planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating interventions and programmes on preventing and responding to violence against women. The framework outlines seven inter-related intervention strategies derived from the word “respect”: Relationships skills strengthenedEmpowerment of womenServices ensuredPoverty reducedEnvironments made safeChild and adolescent abuse preventedTransformed attitudes, beliefs and norm 
Violence Against Women Infographic: Health Impacts and the Role of the Health Sector Year of publication: 2013 Corporate author: World Health Organization (WHO) The WHO Department for Management of NCDs, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention, and Department of Reproductive Health and Research, have prepared an infographic displaying the prevalence and health and social consequences of violence against women, and what the health sector can do to address this public health problem. The infographic is targeted at policy makers and professionals working in the health sector and other relevant sectors. 
[Summary] Global Status Report on Preventing Violence Against Children 2020 Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: World Health Organization (WHO) The Global status report on preventing violence against children 2020 charts countries’ progress towards the SDGs aimed at ending violence against children. Jointly published by WHO, UNICEF, UNESCO, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Violence against Children, and the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children, it collates inputs from over 1000 decision-makers in 155 countries who assessed their violence prevention status against the evidence-based approaches set out in INSPIRE: Seven strategies for ending violence against children. The report shows that while many of the participating countries are taking some action, government officials from these same countries acknowledge that their efforts are clearly insufficient to achieve the SDG targets. The report concludes with recommendations for boosting INSPIRE implementation efforts and accelerating national progress. 
Summary of the World Report on Disability Year of publication: 2011 Corporate author: World Health Organization (WHO) | World Bank The World Health Organization and the World Bank jointly produced this global report on disability, in order to present the evidence needed to develop innovative policies and programs capable of improving the lives of people with disabilities, and to facilitate the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities that was activated in May of 2008. The World Report provides a definition of disability as an umbrella term that includes under its umbrella various forms of organ impairment/dysfunction, limited activity, and participation limitations. The term disability also refers to the negative features of the interaction between individuals with a health condition (such as cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, or depression), and between personal and environmental factors (such as negative attitudes, lack of access to transportation and public buildings, and limited social support).It then presents suggestions for steps that can be taken by all concerned parties - including governments, civil society organizations, and organizations of persons with disabilities - in order to create enabling environments, develop rehabilitation and support services, ensure adequate social protection, launch comprehensive policies and programs, and activate new standards and legislation List, for the benefit of people with disabilities and society at large. People with disabilities should be the centerpiece of these endeavours. It also sheds light on the various obstacles and barriers faced by persons with disabilities - obstacles related to the attitudes and trends they encounter, and physical and financial obstacles - all of which are easy to deal with and address. It provides recommendations for action at the local, national and international levels, and is thus an invaluable tool. 
INSPIRE Handbook: Action for Implementing the Seven Strategies for Ending Violence Against Children Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: World Health Organization (WHO) This handbook explains in detail how to choose and implement interventions that will fit your needs and context. The seven strategy-specific chapters address the Implementation and enforcement of laws; Norms and values; Safe environments; Parent and caregiver support; Income and economic strengthening; Response and support services; and Education and life skills. The handbook concludes with a summary of INSPIRE’s implementation and impact indicators, drawn from the companion INSPIRE indicator guidance and results framework. 
Preventing Youth Violence: An Overview of the Evidence Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: World Health Organization (WHO) Every year about 200.000 adolescents and young people between the ages of 10 and 29 die, which places homicide in fourth place in the world as cause of death in young population. Several million adolescents and young people suffer from acts of violence, and trauma that require urgent medical and psychological treatment. The emotional imprints that youth volence leaves on its survivors and their loved ones are often profound. Youth violence destroys lives and its consequences have very high economic costs, both for society and for the families of young people. The goal of this manual is to provide a scientific framework that allows us to understand why some people have a greater tendency to be involved in acts of youth violence and how to prevent it. 
INSPIRE: Seven strategies for Ending Violence Against Children Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: World Health Organization (WHO) Evidence-based resource for everyone committed to preventing and responding to violence against children and adolescents – from government to grassroots, and from civil society to the private sector. It represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help countries and communities intensify their focus on the prevention programmes and services with the greatest potential to reduce violence against children. The seven strategies are: Implementation and enforcement of laws; Norms and values; Safe environments; Parent and caregiver support; Income and economic strengthening; Response and support services; and Education and life skills. Additionally, INSPIRE includes two cross-cutting activities that together help connect and strengthen – and assess progress towards – the seven strategies. 
2024 State of Climate Services: Five-year Progress Report (2019–2024) Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: World Meteorological Organization (WMO) In 2018, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement at the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) called on WMO, through its Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS), to regularly report on the state of climate services. WMO has issued annual reports on the state of climate services since 2019 in response to this United Nations request for more information on the adaptation needs of countries. The information helps countries, funding agencies and development partners to identify steps needed to address climate services gaps and needs, to inform more effective investment and to enhance adaptation and development outcomes. The 2024 edition of the report describes the current state of climate services while also examining and assessing the progress that has been made during the last five years. The report explores the climate policy response to the climate challenge and advancements made by Members across numerous value chain components. This year’s edition also includes an in-depth look at how a selection of 13 countries have successfully leveraged climate services to deliver socioeconomic benefits at a national, regional or global level. The analysis draws on 113 case studies that were developed over the last five years across multiple sectors, and examines the key success factors, including showcasing the value being created by climate services.