Violence against Women & Children (VAWC) – Page 2

Podcast: Anna Turley: From Moment to Mouvement? #MeToo Two Years on

July 14, 2019

Anna Turley, Feminist and Strategic Communications Consultant, direct from Cape Town, South Africa.

This episode of Comuniqui discusses “MeToo”, the movement, the moment, the narratives and the disagreements. It talks about gender-based violence across the world, discusses organizing across the world. And Argue about social media, Internet, the Media and how they represent women of different age, race, and social class, feminists and non-feminists in the groundswell that “MeToo” generated.

To listen to the podcast click here.

Source (Comuniqui)

Handle With Care: A guide to responsible media reporting of violence against women (Zero Tolerance, 2018)

May 3, 2019

The media plays a powerful role in determining how we see the world around us and good reporting plays a vital role in increasing understanding of violence against women. This guide, aimed at journalists, offers comprehensive advice on various issues from interviewing survivors to providing relevant context and ensuring that violence is neither trivialised nor sensationalised.

Click here for the full guide and the four-page summary document.

Whose Justice, Whose Alternative? Locating women’s voice and agency in alternative dispute resolution responses to intimate partner violence (Beyond Borders, Center for Domestic Violence Prevention (CEDOVIP), and ICRW report, 2016)

April 25, 2019

Intimate partner violence against women is a complex, enormously prevalent crime with devastating effects on women’s safety, health, and well being. With one out of three women worldwide experiencing this violence, its magnitude presents complex challenges to justice systems when survivors of violence seek to formally prosecute perpetrators. Further exacerbating this challenge are the varying individual, family, and community ideas about whether and how such violence – considered a private family matter in many cultural and social contexts – should be made public at all, let alone prosecuted.

Feminist activists insist on a core ethical standard that women survivors of intimate partner violence determine their own course of action in response to violence. But significant obstacles exist in every direction survivors of intimate partner violence may turn.

Both anecdotal and empirical evidence suggests that, in the face of these obstacles, a significant proportion of women survivors of intimate partner violence choose community-based alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms to help address the violence they are facing. Research finds that as many as 80 percent of disputes made public in the Global South are addressed through the informal justice system.

This report examines how well ADR mechanisms have addressed violence for women around the world by examining the following:

What do ADR responses to intimate partner violence look like, particularly in the Global South?
To what extent do these approaches prioritize the voice and agency of women survivors of intimate partner violence?
What examples exist of ADR approaches that better prioritize the voice and agency of women survivors of intimate partner violence?

Click here for full report.

Violence against women within the Rohingya refugee community: prevalence, reasons and implications for communication (BBC Media Action research briefing, 2018)

December 2, 2018

To inform the development of a new radio drama for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, BBC Media Action carried out a small-scale qualitative research study that sought to understand more about Rohingya men and women’s understanding and attitudes towards child marriage, intimate partner violence and sexual exploitation and abuse.

This report shares findings from this study, which was carried out in partnership with Norwegian Church Aid, with funds from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Eight in-depth interviews and four mini focus group discussions were held with Rohingya men and women living in two camps in Cox’s Bazar, as well as key informant interviews with humanitarian practitioners working on issues related to gender-based violence (GBV).

The study found that intimate partner violence and child marriage are deeply rooted and normalised within the Rohingya community in Cox’s Bazar.

Click here for full paper.

‘What Violence Means to Us: Women with Disabilities Speak’ (Inclusive Friends and NSRP Research Study, 2015)

July 30, 2018

There is growing recognition in Nigeria and across the world of the need to protect and promote the rights of women and people with disabilities in times of relative peace, insecurity and violent conflict. Through treaties, resolutions of the Security Council and General Assembly, as well as national policies – including National Action Plans on Women, Peace and Security – countries have committed to ensuring that conflict resolution, security operations and peacebuilding policies and practices are inclusive. However, to date, this commitment has not translated to positive and genuine impact experienced by women with disabilities, who face double marginalisation due to their gender and their disability. Very little research has been conducted on women with disabilities and their specific experiences of conflict and violence. As a result, many government and civil society policies, programmes and services do not take these realities into account.

Click here for full study.