Gender Based Violence - Awareness Campaign
- ihrmhq
- Aug 7, 2022
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Updated: Jan 29, 2023
According to UNFPA, gender-based violence is one of the most prevalent human rights violations in the world. It knows no social, economic or national boundaries. Worldwide, an estimated one in three women will experience physical or sexual abuse in her lifetime. Gender-based violence undermines the health, dignity, security and autonomy of its victims, yet it remains shrouded in a culture of silence. International Human Rights Movement, a civic activism movement in Cape Verde initiated a six month awareness campaign on Gender-based violence. Achieving the desired goals in the context of Gender and Human Rights, giving and receiving the right capacity training and community based CSO engagement in the cause is inevitable. Over 30 community based CSO leaders have been trained and engaged. Press link attached below.
The strategy of taking the campaign to the grassroot is worth the inputs. The culture of silence was broken in the communities where we have organised open forum achored by specialists.
Violence Against Women - Facts and Figures
According to the statistic published by UN WOMEN,
An estimated 736 million women, almost one in three have been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or both at least once in their life (30 per cent of women aged 15 and older).
Globally 81,000 women and girls were killed in 2020, around 47,000 of them (58 per cent) died at the hands of an intimate partner or a family member, which equals to a woman or girl being killed every 11 minutes in their homes. In 58 per cent of all killings perpetrated by intimate partners or other family members, the victim was a woman or girl.
Globally, violence against women disproportionately affects low- and lower-middle-income countries and regions. Thirty-seven per cent of women aged 15 to 49 living in countries classified by the Sustainable Development Goals as “least developed” have been subject to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence in their life. Twenty-two per cent of women living in “least developed countries” have been subjected to intimate partner violence in the past 12 months, substantially higher than the world average of 13 per cent.
Most violence against women is perpetrated by current or former husbands or intimate partners.More than 640 million women aged 15 and older have been subjected to intimate partner violence (26 per cent of women aged 15 and older)
Ending this violence is thus a global concern and it is the business of everyone.
As a response to this action call to end violence against women, IHRM in Cape Verde on the 6th of August, 2022 conducted a walk campaign in the capital city of Praia tagged Stop Gender Based Violence. The match was strategically ended in an open park where the people were engaged with a GBV related cinema and snacks.
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