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Oct 3, 2023 · Regardless of class, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability status, or culture, GBV affects one out of every three women and girls. But it doesn’t have to. Here are 16 solutions to gender-based violence.
- Five causes of gender-based violence | Concern Worldwide
1. Harmful gender stereotypes and patriarchal cultures....
- Five causes of gender-based violence | Concern Worldwide
Gender-based violence can be sexual, physical, verbal, psychological (emotional), or socio-economic and it can take many forms, from verbal violence and hate speech on the Internet, to rape or murder.
- Harmful gender stereotypes and patriarchal cultures. Gender stereotypes and cultural norms are often used to justify violence against women: Men are aggressive, controlling, and dominant, while women are docile, meek, and subservient.
- Conflicts, crises, and displacement. An increasing number of conflicts around the world have led to an increasing number of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) incidents.
- Poverty and other economic challenges. Even outside of conflict zones, girls ages 15 to 18 (and often younger) are forced into marriages. Families in need of funds will turn to this in order to reduce their bills and earn financial support from their new sons-in-law.
- Lack of legal protections. In many cases, the reason that so many types of GBV are allowed to continue in some countries is because there aren’t laws in place to criminalize them, as well as legally codify other rights that would stem gender inequality.
- Overview
- Scope of The Problem
- Health Consequences
- Impact on Children
- Social and Economic Costs
- Prevention and Response
- Role of The Health Sector
- Who Response
The United Nations defines violence against women as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life" (1). Intimate partner violencerefers ...
Population-level surveys based on reports from survivors provide the most accurate estimates of the prevalence of intimate partner violence and sexual violence. A 2018 analysis of prevalence data from 2000–2018 across 161 countries and areas, conducted by WHO on behalf of the UN Interagency working group on violence against women, found that worldw...
Intimate partner (physical, sexual and psychological) and sexual violence cause serious short- and long-term physical, mental, sexual and reproductive health problems for women. They also affect their children’s health and well-being. This violence leads to high social and economic costs for women, their families and societies. Such violence can: 1...
Children who grow up in families where there is violence may suffer a range of behavioural and emotional disturbances. These can also be associated with perpetrating or experiencing violence later...Intimate partner violence has also been associated with higher rates of infant and child mortality and morbidity (through, for example diarrhoeal disease or malnutrition and lower immunization rates).The social and economic costs of intimate partner and sexual violence are enormous and have ripple effects throughout society. Women may suffer isolation, inability to work, loss of wages, lack of participation in regular activities and limited ability to care for themselves and their children.
There is growing evidence on what works to prevent violence against women, based on well-designed evaluations. In 2019, WHO and UN Women with endorsement from 12 other UN and bilateral agencies published RESPECT women– a framework for preventing violence against women aimed at policy makers. Each letter of RESPECT stands for one of seven strategies...
While preventing and responding to violence against women requires a multi-sectoral approach, the health sector has an important role to play. The health sector can: 1. advocate to make violence against women unacceptable and for such violence to be addressed as a public health problem; 2. provide comprehensive services, sensitize and train health ...
At the World Health Assembly in May 2016, Member States endorsed a global plan of action on strengthening the role of the health systems in addressing interpersonal violence, in particular against women and girls and against children. 1. Global plan of action to strengthen the role of the health system within a national multisectoral response to ad...
Reports reveal increased gender-based violence against women around the world, with surges being reported in many cases of upwards of 25%, as stated in the United Nations Policy Brief on the Impact of COVID-19 on Women (2020).
Gender-based violence is defined as violence that is directed against a woman because she is a woman or that affects women disproportionately. It includes acts that inflict physical, mental or sexual harm or suffering, threats of such acts, coercion and other deprivations of liberty.
Gender-based violence is enacted under many different manifestations, from its most widespread form, intimate partner violence, to acts of violence carried out in online spaces. These different forms are not mutually exclusive and multiple incidences of violence can be happening at once and reinforcing each other.
