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Management of gender base violence programme in Bangladesh
Gender-based violence
Gender-based violence is a phenomenon deeply rooted in gender inequality, and continues to be one of the most notable human rights violations within all societies. Gender-based violence is violence directed against a person because of their gender. Both women and men experience gender-based violence but the majority of victims are women and girls.
Gender-based violence and violence against women are terms that are often used interchangeably as it has been widely acknowledged that most gender-based violence is inflicted on women and girls, by men. However, using the “gender-based’ aspect is important as it highlights the fact that many forms of violence against women are rooted in power inequalities between women and men. The terms are used interchangeably throughout EIGE’s work, reflecting the disproportionate number of these particular crimes against women.
The Istanbul Convention (Council of Europe, Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence), as the benchmark for international legislation on tackling gender-based violence, frames gender-based violence and violence against women as a gendered act which is a violation of human rights and a form of discrimination against women.
Under the Istanbul Convention acts of gender-based violence are emphasized as resulting in ‘physical, sexual, psychological or economic harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coerican or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.”
Six key areas
1. Funding women’s full participation in civil society. Women who are active in civil society can be highly effective in influencing global, regional and national treaties, agreements and laws and in exerting pressure to ensure their implementation. More money needs to flow toward supporting women’s active participation in civil society.
2. Scaling up prevention efforts that address unequal gender power relations as a root cause of gender-based violence. Some have effectively structured participatory activities that guide the examination of gender norms and their relationship to power inequities, violence and other harmful behaviors. They work with multiple stakeholders across the socio-ecological spectrum and across multiple sectors. But we need to do a better job of evaluating these programs so we can move them from limited, small-scale pilots to larger- scale, societal-change programs.
3. Bringing gender-based violence clinical services to lower-level health facilities. The provision of gender-based violence clinical services has focused on “one-stop shops” at high-level facilities, such as hospitals, where all services are offered in one place. But, the majority of people who access services at high-level facilities do so too late to receive key interventions, such as emergency contraception and HIV post-exposure prophylaxis. For faster access, we should focus on bringing services closer to the community, particularly in rural areas.
4. Addressing the needs of child survivors, including interventions to disrupt the gender- based violence cycle. In shelters and services for women, it is common to see children of all ages in waiting rooms or safe houses. But it is rare to see anyone working with these children, who have experienced a traumatic event. Sometimes they are victims, but most likely they are witnesses to violence against their mothers. We lack trained professionals to work with children who have experienced gender-based violence, especially when the
perpetrators are parents or other family members.
5. Developing guidance for building systems to eliminate gender-based violence. There is ample global guidance on how to address gender-based violence through certain sectors, such as health, or through discrete actions, such as providing standards for shelters or training for counselors. But we are missing practical guidance for building the whole system from A to Z putting laws into practice, raising awareness of services and creating budgets.
6. Developing support programs for professionals experiencing secondhand trauma.
After three years of working with a program to address school-related gender-based violence, I had to walk away. Despite my commitment to ending gender-based violence, I simply could not hear another awful story. My experience is not unique. Burnout is a reality, and we lack qualified people to deal with gender-based violence survivors.
Much progress has been made in addressing gender-based violence. We are better at defining the issues, collecting data and evidence to identify what works, and steadily improving the quality of services. Despite these advances, gender-based violence remains a global problem with the same root cause inequitable gender norms. Unless and until we address those fundamental inequalities, which includes recognizing that women’s rights are human rights, we will not end gender-based violence.
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