Gender equality means an equal visibility, empowerment, responsibility and participation of women and men in all spheres of public and private life. It also means an equal access to and distribution of resources between women and men and valuing them equally.
Find more:
www.coe.int/equality
gender.equality@coe.int
Nepal has committed itself to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), 2000. Since then, Nepal has gone through many transformations: an armed conflict has ended; a monarchy has been abolished; the creation of a democracy has begun; a constituent assembly elected, dissolved and second constituent assembly elected; abortion has been legalized. However, while there has been a move towards equality and democracy, the status of women still remains a concern.
While Nepal has been commended for its National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325 and 1820, women’s inclusion in peace-building and transitional justice is still not deemed a priority. As a consequence of this, victims of sexual violence in conflict were excluded from the interim relief plan for conflict victims, and women continue to be excluded in political and decision-making positions at all levels. Impunity, political protection, and a patriarchal state and society continue denying access to justice for women facing gender-based violence. The legal system continues to discriminate against women with, among other provisions:
a. Unequal rights to citizenship,
b. A narrow definition of rape,
c. A 35-day statute of limitation on reporting cases of rape,
d. A ban on women under 30 years migrating to the Gulf for informal work such as domestic work, thus curtailing women’s freedom to mobility.
Gender equality means an equal visibility, empowerment, responsibility and participation of women and men in all spheres of public and private life. It also means an equal access to and distribution of resources between women and men and valuing them equally.
Find more:
www.coe.int/equality
gender.equality@coe.int
Nepal has committed itself to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), 2000. Since then, Nepal has gone through many transformations: an armed conflict has ended; a monarchy has been abolished; the creation of a democracy has begun; a constituent assembly elected, dissolved and second constituent assembly elected; abortion has been legalized. However, while there has been a move towards equality and democracy, the status of women still remains a concern.
While Nepal has been commended for its National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325 and 1820, women’s inclusion in peace-building and transitional justice is still not deemed a priority. As a consequence of this, victims of sexual violence in conflict were excluded from the interim relief plan for conflict victims, and women continue to be excluded in political and decision-making positions at all levels. Impunity, political protection, and a patriarchal state and society continue denying access to justice for women facing gender-based violence. The legal system continues to discriminate against women with, among other provisions:
a. Unequal rights to citizenship,
b. A narrow definition of rape,
c. A 35-day statute of limitation on reporting cases of rape,
d. A ban on women under 30 years migrating to the Gulf for informal work such as domestic work, thus curtailing women’s freedom to mobility.
Yusuf Chambers - An Analysis of Modern Day Britianierauk
If we look at our society today, we clearly see a decline that corresponds with a growing lack of morality or even a common one that we can all accept.
As a society, we are not working together and all the social indicators and statistics that are presented in this talk show that British Society is collapsing around us.
Social indicators like the rise in Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), vicious dog attacks, gun crime, growing debt, depression, suicide are all pointing in on direction - to destruction. That is unless we as a community make a change.
Yusuf Chambers then looks at the example of Islamic Spain, a multicultural, multi ethnic society that our very own British society is based upon. What is the common denominator that is mission - God, or Allah in Arabic.
Today's modern society has done away with the God and that ultimate designer and creator has now been subjugated by His creation.
Where is the positive engagement from the Christian and Jewish societies? The statistics show that the Churches and Synagogues are growing emptier year on year.
When are we the Islamic Community in Britian going? Our Mosques are still full but for how long?
Yusuf Chambers
IDC Newcastle - April 2008 St James Park, Newcastle.
Violence contre les Femmes et Filles en Haiti dfid report 2013Stanley Lucas
There are various cultural, political and economic drivers of violence against women and girls in Haiti. They include the following. Gender stereotypes and discrimination against women: Researchers stress that the incidence of violence in the post-earthquake period should be understood in the context of the longer-term social exclusion, and cultural and legal discrimination against women. Women’s economic dependency: There is some evidence that women who are economically dependent on men are more vulnerable to sexual exploitation. Poverty, displacement and poor conditions in internally displaced persons’ (IDP) camps: Studies indicate significant correlations between limited access to adequate food, water and sanitation, and women and girls’ vulnerability to sexual violence in IDP camps. Legacy of state-led violence: Politically motivated violence has been used by some regimes in Haiti. Culture of impunity and weak capacity in the state justice system: An acute lack of resources and capacity in the Haitian justice system makes it difficult for the state to prosecute and punish perpetrators, and deters victims from seeking redress.
na edição 2021 de seu estudo anual Democracy Report, publicada esta semana, o Instituto V-Dem mostrou de maneira indiscutível o que os brasileiros vêm sentindo na pele nos últimos anos: o país vive um acentuado processo de autocratização, e está entre os 10 países onde a democracia mais se deteriorou em 2020.
Yusuf Chambers - An Analysis of Modern Day Britianierauk
If we look at our society today, we clearly see a decline that corresponds with a growing lack of morality or even a common one that we can all accept.
As a society, we are not working together and all the social indicators and statistics that are presented in this talk show that British Society is collapsing around us.
Social indicators like the rise in Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), vicious dog attacks, gun crime, growing debt, depression, suicide are all pointing in on direction - to destruction. That is unless we as a community make a change.
Yusuf Chambers then looks at the example of Islamic Spain, a multicultural, multi ethnic society that our very own British society is based upon. What is the common denominator that is mission - God, or Allah in Arabic.
Today's modern society has done away with the God and that ultimate designer and creator has now been subjugated by His creation.
Where is the positive engagement from the Christian and Jewish societies? The statistics show that the Churches and Synagogues are growing emptier year on year.
When are we the Islamic Community in Britian going? Our Mosques are still full but for how long?
Yusuf Chambers
IDC Newcastle - April 2008 St James Park, Newcastle.
Violence contre les Femmes et Filles en Haiti dfid report 2013Stanley Lucas
There are various cultural, political and economic drivers of violence against women and girls in Haiti. They include the following. Gender stereotypes and discrimination against women: Researchers stress that the incidence of violence in the post-earthquake period should be understood in the context of the longer-term social exclusion, and cultural and legal discrimination against women. Women’s economic dependency: There is some evidence that women who are economically dependent on men are more vulnerable to sexual exploitation. Poverty, displacement and poor conditions in internally displaced persons’ (IDP) camps: Studies indicate significant correlations between limited access to adequate food, water and sanitation, and women and girls’ vulnerability to sexual violence in IDP camps. Legacy of state-led violence: Politically motivated violence has been used by some regimes in Haiti. Culture of impunity and weak capacity in the state justice system: An acute lack of resources and capacity in the Haitian justice system makes it difficult for the state to prosecute and punish perpetrators, and deters victims from seeking redress.
na edição 2021 de seu estudo anual Democracy Report, publicada esta semana, o Instituto V-Dem mostrou de maneira indiscutível o que os brasileiros vêm sentindo na pele nos últimos anos: o país vive um acentuado processo de autocratização, e está entre os 10 países onde a democracia mais se deteriorou em 2020.
Gender equality is a Human right.MAINSTREAMING GENDER EQUALITY-A PERPETUAL STRUGGLE
“A woman is human.
She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man.
Likewise, she is never less.
Equality is given.
A woman is human.”
-Vera Nazarian,
Gender Sensitization refers to theories which claim that modification of the behavior of teachers and parents (etc.) towards children can have a causal effect on gender equality.
Eurobaromètre en anglais sur le viol en Europe (en anglais)Ludovic Clerima
Comparatif des différentes législations sur le viol en Europe avec un article sur les relaxes de violeurs au Royaume-Uni sur MyEurop.info juste ici http://bit.ly/1huVPlX
Eliminating Violence Against Women. Forms, Strategies and ToolsDaniel Dufourt
Workshop
Eliminating Violence Against Women: Forms, Strategies and Tools
On the occasion of the Seventeenth Session of the United Nations Commission On Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Vienna, 14 April 2008, 104 pages
“Combat and rape, the public and private forms of organized social violence, are primarily experiences of adolescent and early adult life. The United States Army enlists young men at seventeen; the average age of the Vietnam combat soldier was nineteen. In many other countries boys are conscripted for military service while barely in their teens. Similarly, the period of highest risk for rape is in late adolescence. Half of all victims are aged twenty or younger at the time they are raped; three-quarters are between the ages of thirteen and twenty-six. The period of greatest psychological vulnerability is also in reality the period of greatest traumatic exposure, for both young men and young women. Rape and combat might thus be considered complementary social rites of initiation into the coercive violence at the foundation of adult society. They are the paradigmatic forms of trauma for women and men.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Special Eurobarometer 449 Report on Gender-based violenceJess Bauldry
Gender-based violence encompasses both violence directed towards a person on the basis of their
gender, and violence that disproportionately affects persons of a particular gender. Gender-based
violence can be physical, sexual or psychological, or a combination of two or more of these forms. It
includes domestic violence, sexual harassment and violence, harmful practices and cyberharassment.
Gender-based violence happens in every country, across the full spectrum of society,
and in a myriad of locations.
A ready-made presentation on Violation of Women's rights giving a detailed account of the violence on women globally and in India. Includes historical events that are important in the context of women's rights. This PPT talks about how women's rights are violated on daily basis, globally and in India along with providing measures to ensure our women's safety and well being. Talks about women's rights in India as well.
Presentation by Massimo Toschi (EU Agency for Fundamental Rights Programme Manager) on the occasion of the EESC conference on Eradicating domestic violence, 21 Sep 2012, Brussels
Understanding Gender Based Violence and Trends in the Caribbean Taitu Heron
Overview of what is gender based violence and a look at the trends in the Caribbean. For Sociology Course students, Department of Sociology, Univ. of the West Indies, Mona Campus.
Gaps in Data Collection on Femicide in Italy serena boccardo
Data on 'Femicide' - the homicide of women by men for sentimental reasons - in Italy shows that it occurs as the final outcome of a series of violence and right violations. Nevertheless, data collection itself contains gaps and drawbacks which makes the preventive identification of the phenomenon difficult, no matter the recent ratification of major international conventions on gender rights.
Side event on "LGBTI, armed violence, and security: advancing a research agenda"
Regional Review Conference on the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development
Geneva, Switzerland | 8-9 July 2014
Challenges undermining domestic violence victims’ access to
EU Presentation
1. Violence Against Women and
Gender Equality in the European
Union
With Finland, Sweden, the Czech Republic,
and Hungary as case studies
Sandrine Charlotte Bartos
The University of California, Riverside
10 April 2015
2. Why is violence against women in the
European Union important?
3. Definitions:
Gender Equality: the relative gaps between men and women
across four key areas: health, education, economics and
politics
Physical Violence: at least one instance of having been
pushed/shoved, slapped, grabbed, hit by an object, beaten,
burned, suffocated, stabbed/shot, and/or beaten in the head
since the age of 15 or in the past 12 months.
Sexual Violence: at least one instance of having been forced
or coerced into sex.
Psychological violence: controlling behavior, economic
violence, and abusive behavior
Sexual harassment: unwanted touching, verbal harassment,
and non-verbal harassment
Sources: World Economic Forum, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
5. Statistics
33% of women have experienced physical or sexual violence
since the age of 15
55% of women have experienced sexual harassment since the
age of 15
16% of previously abused women experience violence even
after they leave their abuser
12% of women have experienced sexual violence before the
age of 15
53% avoid certain situations or places out of fear of being
physically or sexually attacked
Source: European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
6. What is the European Union doing
to combat violence against
women?
7. Resolution on Violence Against
Women (1986)
Revision of member states’ laws (especially rape within
marriage and the amount of police officers trained in sexual
offences)
Built upon the Universal Declaration of Human rights
Appropriate care and treatment for women who have been
affected by violence
8. The Daphne Programme
Officially known as the Daphne Programme to Prevent and
Combat Violence Against Children, Young People and Women
and to Protect Victims and Groups at Risk
Started in 2000, in three phases
Daphne I
NGOs and state programs
Raise public awareness, especially trafficking
Daphne II
Networks to support victims
Provide trainings to professionals
Daphne III
Violence prevention in public and private domain, including
sexual exploitation and trafficking
9. The Istanbul Convention (2011,
effective 2014)
Calls for de jure (officially sanctioned by law) and de facto (in
every day life) equality between men and women to resolve
violence
Violence against women is a violation of human rights and a
form of discrimination
Calls for states to have minimal definitions of what constitutes
violence, in all of its forms
10. What does violence against women
look like in the European Union’s
most gender equal and least
gender equal countries?
11. Finland (1st in gender equality in the
European Union)
Numbers
Official numbers: 1,009 rapes reported in 2014
FRA survey: 10% of Finnish women have experienced sexual or
physical violence in the past year, and 47% since the age of 15
(273,686 and 1.286 million women)
Reasons
A violent history
Women see themselves as strong-willed, and men feel that
violence is the only way to assert themselves
High alcohol consumption, with 51.8% of the male population
reporting heavy episodic drinking
No national plan for violence prevention
Only 21 shelters in the country
Sources: Statistics Finland, World Health Organization, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
12. Sweden (2nd in gender equality in
the European Union)
Numbers:
Official: 5,887 rapes reported in 2013
Estimated: 30,000
Reasons:
High alcohol consumption
Discriminatory attitudes among police
Violence is a private matter
Unique definition of rape
Gang rape
Source: Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention
13. The Czech Republic (27th in gender
equality in the European Union)
Numbers:
Official: 480 (2009)
Estimated: only 8% of rapes are reported, and 3% are reported
within a family context (European Women’s Lobby)
Reasons
Victims do not know where to go
Legacy of socialism
Violence prevention, treatment, and support for victims is mainly
provided by NGOs
Sources: NationMaster, European Women’s Lobby
14. Hungary (28th in gender equality in
the European Union)
Numbers
Official: 246 (2010)
1 in 3 women have been victims of sexual violence
Reasons
Judges have very little training
Law says that women have to prove they fought back
No shelters
Rise of far-right parties
Cultural norms
Definition of rape
Sources: NationMaster, Refworld
15. Explanations for Variations Between
Countries
Lower rates of violence correlate with lower rates of
knowledge of violence
Higher rates of gender equality leads to more conversations
about violence
Differences in location, age, and education
Differences in crime rates
Alcohol consumption
16. Conclusion
Gender equality is required to prevent violence, but is not the
only requirement
Educate the people, from students to law enforcement
State laws must align with each other, and should not be below the
limits set by the Istanbul Convention
Make violence a public matter
Advertise resources better, and make the law concerning
violence more well known
Changing attitudes about behavior related to alcohol
Changing the stigma that surrounds victims of sexual violence
17. Sources
European Commission
European Council
OpenDemocracy
United Nations (Refworld)
NationMaster
Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå)
European Women’s Lobby
Statistics Finland
World Economic Forum
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
From Global to Grassroots, Celeste Montoya
Feminists@Law
CNN
Gender, Globalization, and Postsocialism: The Czech Republic After
Communism, Jacqui True
European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics
Editor's Notes
Review legislation
Women have to be out of work for at least 7 days for it to qualify as anything more than a misdemeanor
