This document discusses the widespread issue of sexual violence against women and girls during armed conflicts and in post-conflict settings. It provides statistics showing tens of thousands of cases of war-related rape in Bosnia, Kosovo, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Women and children make up the majority of victims in modern conflicts. Sexual violence is used systematically to destabilize communities, quell resistance, and advance ethnic cleansing through forced impregnation and HIV transmission. After conflicts, risks of violence continue during flight, in refugee camps, and women may turn to exploitation like prostitution due to rejection and lack of prospects. Sexual violence has immense short and long-term health impacts for survivors.
The shame of war. Sexual violence against women and girls in conflictDaniel Dufourt
the shame of war
sexual violence against women and girls in conflict
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The Other Terrorism: Militarism and Violence Against WomenFempeace
This slide show is from the Power Point presentation that accompanied a talk by Lucinda Marshall, Director of the Feminist Peace Network, http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org at the University of Dayton on "Militarism and Violence Against Women: The 'Other' Terrorism.
We need to be pushy': women's rights and photographyRam Chary Everi
Donna Ferrato, activist, photojournalist and campaigner for women’s rights, is unexpectedly – and only briefly – conciliatory. “The good thing with Trump was that everything was becoming more transparent – we were seeing how the world worked more clearly than under any other president we ever had.” The moment passes and she adds: “But it was also the reason why we had to fight much harder and change things and take back our rights.”
The shame of war. Sexual violence against women and girls in conflictDaniel Dufourt
the shame of war
sexual violence against women and girls in conflict
A United Nations OCHA/IRIN publication
IRIN is part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). For more information visit: www.irinnews.org
Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)
United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON)
Publishing Services Section
Published in Kenya. February 2007, 139 pages
The Other Terrorism: Militarism and Violence Against WomenFempeace
This slide show is from the Power Point presentation that accompanied a talk by Lucinda Marshall, Director of the Feminist Peace Network, http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org at the University of Dayton on "Militarism and Violence Against Women: The 'Other' Terrorism.
We need to be pushy': women's rights and photographyRam Chary Everi
Donna Ferrato, activist, photojournalist and campaigner for women’s rights, is unexpectedly – and only briefly – conciliatory. “The good thing with Trump was that everything was becoming more transparent – we were seeing how the world worked more clearly than under any other president we ever had.” The moment passes and she adds: “But it was also the reason why we had to fight much harder and change things and take back our rights.”
George Floyd: Black lives matter, peaceful protests and black historyRupinder K Gill
In relation to George Floyd’s death I have spent the past few days educating myself on Black lives matter and black history in America. Here is what some of my reading was based on. I have chosen to focus on Black lives matter, slavery, Rosa Parks, Emmett Hill, Martin Luther King Jr, Trayvon Martin and George Floyd – times where black citizens have been racially oppressed and what we can learn.
This is the presentation of my strategy paper which was presented at the 8th Annual Asian Training Session on Human Rights, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, October 2004. All participants were given 15 minutes for the presentation: 10 for the presentation and 5 for a question and answer session. I'm proud to say that my presentation and strategy paper was chosen as the best. :o)
George Floyd: Black lives matter, peaceful protests and black historyRupinder K Gill
In relation to George Floyd’s death I have spent the past few days educating myself on Black lives matter and black history in America. Here is what some of my reading was based on. I have chosen to focus on Black lives matter, slavery, Rosa Parks, Emmett Hill, Martin Luther King Jr, Trayvon Martin and George Floyd – times where black citizens have been racially oppressed and what we can learn.
This is the presentation of my strategy paper which was presented at the 8th Annual Asian Training Session on Human Rights, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, October 2004. All participants were given 15 minutes for the presentation: 10 for the presentation and 5 for a question and answer session. I'm proud to say that my presentation and strategy paper was chosen as the best. :o)
This report details the findings of a two-day workshop convened by the United Nations' Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict in July 2013. The conference brought together human rights defenders, medical practitioners and service providers, researchers and academics, civil society representatives, and male survivors of conflict-related sexual violence to discuss gaps in research, legal frameworks, and medical services and support among other things and suggest ways in which to address these gaps.
Domestic Violence Against Women And Girls In Powerpoint (Created By Mann Bdr...Mann Pariyar
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includes the recent guidelines & methodology for exaamination of rape victim in india. very helpful for medical students, practising doctos, esp Govt doctors.
ReadySetPresent (Sexual Harassment PowerPoint Presentation Content): 100+ PowerPoint presentation content slides. Harassment in the workplace is the precursor to a hostile work environment. Understanding the difference between what is and is not sexual harassment, ones responsibilities as an employee and the consequences if harassment does occur will enable employees and managers to work in a comfortable environment. Sexual Harassment PowerPoint Presentation Content slides include topics such as: what is and is not sexual harassment, 6 types of sexual harassment, 10+ slides on various classes of harassment, 3 slides on who is the harasser, 3 slides on what sexual harassment causes, 10 slides on the complaint procedure, 10 slides on the consequences and effects of sexual harassment, 15+ slides on statistics, 10 slides on countries with similar harassment policies to the U.S. and more.
R A P E V I C T I M S A R E A C L A S S O F P E R S O N S O F T E N D...MedicalWhistleblower
Every two minutes, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted. 1, 2 One out of every six American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. 3 Only one in 50 women who have been raped reports the crime to the police.4
Although both women and men may be victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking, women are the victims of the vast majority of these crimes. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than 85% of violent victimizations by intimate partners between 1993 and 1998 were perpetrated against women. Women are between 13 and 14 times more likely than men to be raped or sexually assaulted; for instance, in 1994, 93% of sexual assaults were perpetrated against women. Four of five stalking victims are women.
According to one United Nations estimate, 113 to 200 million women are “demographically missing” from the world today. That is to say, there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth, who aren’t. By that same estimate, 1.5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender-based neglect or gender-based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict.
We can point a finger at poverty. But poverty alone does not result in these girls and women’s deaths and suffering; the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies.
India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are “missing” due to female foeticide - the sex-selective abortion of girls, dowry death, gender-based neglect and all forms of violence against women.
The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence. Violence against women has gone public – whether it is dowry murders, the practice of female genital mutilation, honour killings, sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils, rapes and killings in communal and caste violence, it is only women’s and human rights groups who are protesting – the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal. Most of the values are insufficiently imagined and fundamentally flawed.
More than two-thirds of the women’s populations don’t have access to the financial system. Poor women are not considered credit worthy. Every human being should have the “right to credit” because if people have money, they can change their lives. It is true for women. Nearly half the world’s population live in poverty, 70% are women.
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Unite To End Violence Against Women!
Educate & Empowered Women for a Happy Future !!!!!!
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www.un.org/womenwatch/
www.un.org/women/endviolence/
www.saynotoviolence.org/
www.unaids.org
www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
Sexual violence occurs throughout the world Available data suggest
that in some countries nearly one in four women may experience
sexual violence by an intimate partner and up to one third of
adolescent girls report their first sexual experience as being forced
Sexual violence has a profound impact on physical and mental health
As well as causing physical injury, it is associated with an increased
risk of a range of sexual and reproductive health problems, with both
immediate and long term consequences
Today, we are confronted with a global refugee crisis of unprecedented levels,
a crisis that, as shown in this report, deeply affects the Western Hemisphere.
No one knows this better than those fleeing epidemic levels of violence,
including gender-based violence, in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.1
Research conducted over four months found that women face a startling degree
of violence that has a devastating impact on their daily lives. With no protection
at home, women flee to protect themselves and their children from murder,
extortion, and rape. They present a clear need for international protection.
Based on US Department of Homeland Security data covering FY 2015, of
the thousands of women and girls from these countries who expressed a fear
of being returned to their home country and were subject to the credible fear
screening process, US authorities have found that a large percentage have a
significant possibility of establishing eligibility for asylum or protection under the
Convention against Torture.2
A surging tide of violence sweeping across El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras
forces thousands of women, men, and children to leave their homes every month.
This region of Central America, known as the Northern Triangle (“Northern Triangle
of Central America” or “NTCA”), is one of the most dangerous places on earth.3
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.
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.
According to one United Nations estimate, 113 to 200 million women are “demographically missing” from the world today. That is to say, there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth, who aren’t. By that same estimate, 1.5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender-based neglect or gender-based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict.
We can point a finger at poverty. But poverty alone does not result in these girls and women’s deaths and suffering; the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies.
India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are “missing” due to female foeticide - the sex-selective abortion of girls, dowry death, gender-based neglect and all forms of violence against women.
The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence. Violence against women has gone public – whether it is dowry murders, the practice of female genital mutilation, honour killings, sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils, rapes and killings in communal and caste violence, it is only women’s and human rights groups who are protesting – the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal. Most of the values are insufficiently imagined and fundamentally flawed.
More than two-thirds of the women’s populations don’t have access to the financial system. Poor women are not considered credit worthy. Every human being should have the “right to credit” because if people have money, they can change their lives. It is true for women. Nearly half the world’s population live in poverty, 70% are women.
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Unite To End Violence Against Women!
Educate & Empowered Women for a Happy Future !!!!!!
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
www.un.org/womenwatch/
www.un.org/women/endviolence/
www.saynotoviolence.org/
www.unaids.org
www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
Rape Victims Are A Class Of Persons Often Defined By Gender Medical ...MedicalWhistleblower
Every two minutes, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted. One out of every six American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. Only one in 50 women who have been raped reports the crime to the police.
Although both women and men may be victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking, women are the victims of the vast majority of these crimes. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than 85% of violent victimizations by intimate partners between 1993 and 1998 were perpetrated against women. Women are between 13 and 14 times more likely than men to be raped or sexually assaulted; for instance, in 1994, 93% of sexual assaults were perpetrated against women. Four of five stalking victims are women. Data on male victimization do not show that males experience comparable victimizations and injury levels, do not account for women who act in self defense, and do not measure financial control, intimidation, and isolation used by perpetrators of domestic violence against women.
The gender issue is foremost in sexual assault issues, and is usually background in general victimization. The unique cultural bias and shaming that accompanies rape cases needs its own focused opposition. The history of rape law is a history of the law used as a tool to protect rapists, rather than the raped. The anti-rape movement confronts, as it must, the cultural myths that uniquely exist in the context of rape. Manipulation of these myths, along with humiliation and victim blaming, are typical informal defenses to rape charges. Blaming victims in rape cases may be an effective means to secure acquittal. In contrast, blaming a robbery victim is typically ineffective because robbery is unaccompanied by the same pernicious cultural myths. The nature of stigma and abuse in rape cases is profound and unique, a criminal process that mistreats and excludes other types of victims also inflicts secondary victimization.
In 2002, there were 247,730 victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault. One out of every six American women have been the victims of an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime (14.8% completed rape; 2.8% attempted rape). A total of 17.7 million women have been victims of these crimes. In 2002, one in every eight rape victims were male. 93% of juvenile sexual assault victims knew their attacker; 34.2% were family members and 58.7% acquaintances. Only seven percent of the perpetrators were strangers to the victim.
One of the most startling aspects of sex crimes is how many go unreported. The most common reasons given by victims for not reporting these crimes are the belief that it is a private or personal matter and that they fear reprisal from the assailant.
• In 2001, only 39% of rapes and sexual assaults were reported to law enforcement officials — about one in every three. [1999 NCVS]
• Approximately 66% of rape victims know their assailant.
• Approximately 48% of victims are raped by a friend or acquaintance; 30% by a stranger; 16% by an intimate; 2% by another relative; and in 4% of cases the relationship is unknown.
• About four out of ten sexual assaults take place at the victim’s own home. More than half of all rape/sexual assault incidents were reported by victims to have occurred within one mile of their home or at their home.
• In one study, 98% of males who raped boys reported that they were heterosexual.
• Rapists are more likely to be serial criminals than serial rapists. In one study, 46% of rapists who were released from prison were rearrested within 3 years of their release for another crime -- 18.6% for a violent offense, 14.8% for a property offense, 11.2% for a drug offense and 20.5% for a public-order offense.
• 61% of rapes/sexual assaults are not reported to the police. Those rapists, of course, never serve a day in prison.
So, even in the 39% of attacks that are reported to police, there is onl
1. Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in War and Its Aftermath: Realities, Responses and Required Resources
2. Introduction The following information is provided from A Briefing Paper Prepared for Symposium on Sexual Violence in conflict and Beyond 21-23 June 2006 Brussels, Belgium. Within this briefing paper is several stories, statistics, references, and ideas to eliminate sexual violence against women related to conflict. This power point presentation is created from direct experts from this paper and therefore the entire content is a direct quote.
3. Part 1: the nature and Scope of Violence Against Women and Children in Armed Conflict and its Aftermath By 1993, the Zenica Centre for the Registration of War and Genocide Crime in Bosnia-Herzegovina had documented 40,000 cases of war-related rape. An estimated 23,2000 to 45,600 Kosovar Albanian women are believed to have been raped between August 1998 and 1999, the height of the conflict with Serbia. In 2003, 74 percent of a random sample of 388 Liberian refugee women living in camps in Sierra Leone reported being sexually abused prior to being displaced from their homes in Liberia. Fifty-five percent of them experienced sexual violence during displacement.
4. Part 1: Continued Based on the outcomes of a study undertaken in 2000, researches concluded that approximately 50,000 to 64,000 internally displaced women may have been sexually victimized during Sierra Leone’s protracted armed conflict. 19 percent of 1,575 Burundian women surveyed by the United Nations Population Fund in 2004 had been raped; 40 percent had heard about or had witnessed the rape of a minor.
5. Part 1: Continued Of a sample of 410 internally displaced Colombian women in Cartagnea who were surveyed in 2003, 8 percent reported some form of sexual violence prior to being displaced, and 11 percent reported being abused since their displacement. Between October 2004 and February 2005, Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) treated almost 500 rape victims in Darfur, Sudan. Since that time, incidents of rape have continued and MSF strongly believed the number of women who have been raped is much greater that the number of those who have received medical care.
6. War Between 1989 and 1997 an estimated 103 armed conflicts were launched in 69 countries across the world. Civilian causalities during these more recent conflicts are estimated to be as high as 75 percent. Although overall more men than women continue to die as a result of conflict, women and girls suffer myriad debilitating consequences of war. According to a 2002 report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations women and children are disproportionately targets and constitute the majority of all victims of contemporary armed conflicts.
7. The Murderous Madness of Sexual Violence in Conflict The motivation for rape committed during armed conflict varies. The violence can be more or less random, a by product of the collapse in social and moral order that accompanies war. Men from the local community may exploit the chaos of conflict to commit sexual violence against women without fear of punishment. Sexual violence may also be systematic, carried out by fighting forces for the explicit purpose of destabilizing populations and destroying bonds within communities and families. In these instances rape is often a public act, aimed to maximize humiliation and shame.
8. Sexual Violence in Conflict Continued Sexual violence also can serve to quell resistance by instilling fear in local communities or in opposing armed groups. In such cases, women's bodies are used as an envelope to send messages to the perceived enemy. Particularly in conflicts defined by racial, tribal, religious and other divisions, violence may be used to advance the goal of ethnic cleansing. Forced impregnation, mutilation of genitals and intentional HIV transmission are other techniques of ethnic cleansing.
9. Sexual Slaves Many instances have been identified where women and girls are abducted for the purpose of supplying combatants with sexual services. More often the victims of sexual slavery are younger, and in many cases their victimization comes under the terms of military duty. An estimated 40% of child soldiers around the world are girls, the majority of them are forcibly or coercively conscripted. Even those women and girls who voluntarily join fighting forces are unlikely to anticipate the extent to which they will suffer sexual exploitation.
10. Flight According to the United Nations Secretary-General the differential impact of armed conflict and the specific vulnerabilities of women can be seen in all phases of displacement. During flight women and girls remain at high risk for sexual violence committed by bandits, insurgency groups, military and border guards. Many women must flee without added safeguard of male relatives or community members further increasing their vulnerability.
11. Camps Camps for internally displaced or refugee persons may offer limited protection from sexual violence. In a 1996 survey of Burundian refugee women displaced to a camp in Tanzania, more that one in four reported being raped during the prior three years of conflict, with two-thirds of the rapes occurring since displacement, either inside or close to the camp. The majority of the perpetrators were other refugees, followed by local Burundian residents, and then local Tanzanians soldiers and police.
12. Reconstruction or exploitation? Evidence suggests that sexual violence does not necessarily end with the cessation of armed conflict. Incidents of rape are reported to have increased sharply in the context of ongoing insecurity in post-war Iraq. In other post–conflict settings, incidence of rape may decrease, but risk of exposure to forced or coerced prostitution, as well as trafficking, may increase. In many instances, the risk to women and girls of falling prey to sexual exploiters is exacerbated by reconstruction programs that fail to specifically target their needs, or to address long-standing patriarchal traditions that discriminate against women.
13. Reconstruction or exploitation continued Ironically and sadly women and girls who experienced sexual violence during conflict are probably the most vulnerable of all to further exploitation in post-conflict settings. Some rape victims may be rejected by their families and communities for having lost their value. Raped women may be abandoned by husbands who fear contracting HIV, or who simply cannot tolerate the shadow of dishonor they believe their raped wives have cast across them. Without prospects for the future prostitution may seem the only viable option for these women.
14. The impact on the Survivor Sexual violence against women in war and its aftermath can have almost inestimable short and long-term negative health consequences. Vaginal destruction (from violent gang rape) Traumatic fistulas (tissue tears in the vagina, rectum, and bladder) Uterine prolapse (the descent of the uterus into the vagina or beyond). Infertility Complications from miscarriages and self induced abortions Sexually transmitted infections including HIV transmission.
15. Closing The report contains many more statistics and stories told by women victims during war from across the globe (which may be helpful for completing individual country papers). For more information related to violence against women in war along with ideas, and governmental programs for combating the violence please read this entire report.
16. Reference; Ward, J., & Marsh, M. (2006). Sexual violence against women and girls in war and its aftermath: realities, responses, and required resources . Proceedings of the Symposium on sexual violence in conflict and beyond Power point created by Carla Olson