Calling out the culture of silence around gender-based violence in Mongolia
For 25-year-old Clémence Gallopin, volunteering is about "bringing people's voices and knowledge into collective actions and ensuring that no one is left behind". She serves as a UN Youth Volunteer with the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in Mongolia, where she has been contributing to a programme to combat gender-based violence.
According to the country’s first national gender-based violence survey in 2017, at least half of Mongolian women are expected to experience some form of gender-based violence in their lifetime, and one in three women had suffered violence in the year prior.