United Nations Collaboration for the Prevention of Interpersonal Violence
Many entities within the UN family address interpersonal violence in their work either directly through prevention programmes and assistance to victims, or indirectly through work that addresses cross-cutting risk factors for violence such as poverty and inequality. In 2001 the World Health Organization hosted the First Meeting on United Nations Collaboration for the Prevention of Interpersonal Violence in Geneva to document the on-going work to prevent interpersonal violence and to identify activities for future collaboration across agencies. Participants of the meeting agreed that collaboration amongst UN agencies was much needed and would be particularly helpful in the areas of advocacy, research and prevention.
In 2004 the World Health Organization convened the Second Meeting on United Nations Collaboration for the Prevention of Interpersonal Violence, which focused on advocacy. Eleven agencies discussed opportunities for advocacy-related collaboration including the UN Secretary-General's Study on Violence against Children, the African Year for Prevention of Violence (2005), country work, and the possible development of a web portal.
