Countries: Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, South Africa, Tunisia, Zambia
Variables: ABO-LAW-1

"[Benin's] is one of the most liberal laws in Africa… In Africa, only São Tomé and Príncipe, South Africa, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Tunisia, Zambia and Guinea-Bissau have similarly liberal abortion laws" (para 9).

Countries: Cape Verde, Jamaica, Latvia, Malta, Mongolia, Slovenia
Variables: MULTIVAR-SCALE-6

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Countries: Cape Verde
Variables: TRAFF-DATA-1

According to the U.S. State Department's 2023 TIP report, Cabo Verde ranks as a Tier 2 country (85).

Countries: Cape Verde
Variables: DV-DATA-1

According to 2022 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, the proportion of ever-partnered women and girls (aged 15-49) in Cabo Verde who have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in their lifetime is 19 percent (KMM-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Cape Verde
Variables: MMR-SCALE-1

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Countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, D R Congo, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: DACH-SCALE-2

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Countries: Cape Verde
Variables: MMR-DATA-1

According to a 2023 report on global trends in maternal mortality from 2000-2020 published by the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and UNDESA/Population Division, in 2020 the maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births) in Cabo Verde was 42 (KMM-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Cape Verde
Variables: DACH-DATA-1

According to the World Bank, as of 2021, life expectancy in Cabo Verde is 78 years for women and 70 years for men (KMM-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Algeria, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Fiji, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Libya, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Oman, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Variables: BR-SCALE-1

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Countries: Cape Verde
Variables: PW-DATA-1

"[P]olygamy has decreased in the State party" (14).

Countries: Cape Verde
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-3

"[There remains a] lack of meaningful participation of women in the development and implementation of [the national strategy for disaster risk reduction for the period 2017–2030, gender equality and environment sustainability] … [T]he State party [does not] take measures to ensure food security among women, such as by supporting agricultural activity, creating food stocks and building water reserves to avoid famine… [R]ural women [are being included] in the national poverty reduction strategy… [There is] limited inclusion of rural women in the design and implementation of measures to promote renewable energies and sustainable use of the ocean, known as the 'blue economy'" (12). "[W]omen [do not] effectively participate in municipal environmental,...more

Countries: Cape Verde
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"[R]ural women continue to carry a disproportionate burden of unpaid care work compared with rural men" (12).

Countries: Cape Verde
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-2

"[The country adopted] the regulatory framework of the Gender Based Violence Law, in 2015" (1). "[T]he national plan to combat sexual violence against children and adolescents for the period 2017–2019, [was adopted] in 2016" (2). "[D]ata on court cases collected by the Superior Council of Magistrates are not disaggregated by victim or perpetrator characteristics, such as sex or other variables, which does not enable an analysis of cases of gender-based discrimination or violence" (3). "[The state developed] the national gender equality plan for the period 2015–2018, the national plan to combat gender-based violence and the national gender equality plan for the period 2019–2021" (3).

Countries: Cape Verde
Variables: LBHO-PRACTICE-3

"[T]emporary special measures, such as outreach or support programmes, the allocation and/or reallocation of resources, preferential treatment, targeted recruitment, hiring, training and promotion and statutory quotas, to redress gaps in participation in political and public life [are not currently implemented and promoted]" (4).

Countries: Cape Verde
Variables: LDS-LAW-1

"[A] Domestic Workers’ Association [was created] in 2018... [The] social protection to domestic workers under decree law No. 49/2009 of 23 November 2009 [was extended]" (10). "[T]he Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189) of ILO [has not been ratified by Cabo Verde]"(11).