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Spotlight Initiative's Safe and Fair Programme, worked among ASEAN countries and engaged with employers’ organizations to improve the working conditions of women migrant workers. This included building the capacity of 1,003 employers in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam to address the concerns of women migrant workers. A group vulnerable to exploitation, harassment and abuse. Spotlight Initiative partnered with the ASEAN Confederation of Employers (ACE) to develop policy briefs that made the business case for preventing violence and harassment at work and detailed…

Spotlight Initiative's Latin America Regional Programme supported eight national surveys, conducting 9,600 interviews across Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico. These surveys provided data on social perceptions of violence against women and girls and femicide. The results showed that verbal abuse and femicide were perceived as the most commonly occurring forms of violence against women and girls, while control over women’s lives was perceived as more acceptable than other forms of violence against women and girls. The survey findings and…