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International Day To End Violence Against Women

24/11/2020

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Ending Gender-Based Violence

What Is Violence Against Women?

Violence against women is 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.

It is rooted in the gender inequality that women face throughout their lives from childhood through to their old age. Violence against women comes in many forms; physical, emotional, verbal, and many more. It can come through different channels including intimate partner violence, workplace violence, sexual violence, family, and even societal violence.
Gender inequality and norms play a big role in the acceptability of violence against women and are a root cause of violence against women.
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Why Is Violence Against Women Prevalent?

There are various risk factors that contribute to the prevalence of violence against women, such as:
  • Lower levels of education;
  • A history of exposure to child maltreatment;
  • Witnessing family violence;
  • Attitudes that condone violence;
  • Community norms that privilege or ascribe higher status to men and lower status to women;
  • Low levels of women’s access to paid employment;
  • Weak legal sanctions for sexual violence, and other forms of violence against women;

How To Eliminate Gender-Based Violence From National And International Levels

Violence against women and girls is rooted in gender-based discrimination, social norms that accept violence, and gender stereotypes that continue those cycles of violence. To date, efforts to eliminate violence against women and girls have mainly focused on responding to and providing services to survivors of violence. However, prevention which addresses the structural causes, as well as the risk and protective factors associated with violence is pivotal to eliminating violence against women and girls completely.

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Prevention is the only way to stop violence before it even occurs. It requires political commitment, implementing laws that promote gender equality, investing in women’s organisations, and addressing the multiple forms of discrimination women face daily.
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Other ways to eliminate violence against women includes the following:
  • Create laws where necessary and enforce existing laws that protect women from discrimination and violence, including rape, beatings, verbal abuse, mutilation, torture, “honour” killings and trafficking;
  • Educate community members on their responsibilities under international and national human rights laws;
  • Create more awareness on the dangers of harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation and sexual initiations;
  • Promote the peaceful resolution of disputes by including the perspectives of women and girls;
  • Sensitise the public to the disadvantages of early and forced child marriages;
  • Highlight the value of girls’ education and protect girls from violence in schools;
  • Encourage and support women’s participation in economic development;.
  • Raise public awareness of the poor conditions some women face, particularly in rural areas using specialists so they can feel safe;
  • Encourage and engage young men and boys to become change agents by starting from the home;
  • Give girls a voice by creating workshops that educate them on sexual exploitation, girls’ rights and advocacy and protect their voice.​

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Education can contribute towards the eradication of violence against women and girls. An educated girl has the power to speak up herself. Join us to give girls a voice. 
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International Day of The Girl Child 2020 My Voice Our Equal Future

21/9/2020

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International Day of The Girl Child 2020

My Voice, Our Equal Future

​It is a known fact that girls are experts on their own needs and unique realities and all they need is the right support made up of opportunities and skills to make their voices heard. Without this, it is impossible to know exactly what a girl believes is best for her immediate and near future. This is why it is important to give girls a voice and to listen to her when she speaks.

Why The Voices Of Girls Matter?

​The voices of girls matter because by giving a girl a voice, she can express herself and limits are removed. There is more participation in decision making about her life; her choices are broadened and ultimately, the quality of education and enlightenment improves. When a girl has a voice, she can make changes in her community; lead, challenge, push boundaries and improve the lives of those around her by inspiring them. 

What It Means For Girls To Have A Voice?

​Giving girls a voice includes empowering girls and women such that they can participate in decision making at private and public levels and access to resources are no longer one sided (in favour of the male gender) so that both genders become equal participants in leading a productive and reproductive life. When she talks, the world listens.
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How Education Can Give Girls A voice?

Every child can reach their full potential through access to education. Without education, girls are exposed and vulnerable and cannot learn how to actualise their ideas and dreams. Education therefore provides the foundation upon which boundless opportunities for future generations of women is built.

Education gives girls a voice because education is key to addressing poverty and fighting disease. An educated woman is an empowered woman that can use her voice to effectively contribute to society, the economy and transforms her family and community through her choices. Being in school makes a girl aware of her rights and improves her own health which in turn affects her family positively.

Education also gives girls the confidence to speak up and increases the probability of them being heard. By giving women and girls a voice, they can join the campaign for equality.

In order to support girls' education, it is important to go beyond providing learning opportunities, it requires keeping girls safe and protecting them from all forms of violence within and outside their places of learning.

Importance Of Our Equal Future

An equal future is one in which there is gender equality. Gender equality goes beyond being a fundamental human right, it is the bedrock of a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. In an ideal world, gender equality should be the norm. Reducing inequality makes economies stronger and builds societies that are stable and resilient allowing everyone equal opportunity to fulfil their potential.

An equal future is one where girls and boys enjoy socially valued goods, opportunities and resources and rewards the same way. It does not mean that men and women become the same; it just means that access to opportunities does not depend on gender.

An equal future by giving girls a voice is linked to the realisation of basic human rights for all. It is a future in which girls and boys enjoy the same opportunities, obligations and rights in all areas of life.

There is equal distribution of power and influence and equal opportunity for financial independence through work or business. Both genders enjoy equal access to education and the chance to build up on their personal talents, interests and ambitions; share responsibility for the children and the home and are free from gender-based violence both at home and at work. Lastly, both genders are completely free from coercion and intimidation in an equal future.

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