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RESEARCH |
INTERVENTION |
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| Understanding the Violence | Responding to the Violence | Attacking the Roots of Violence | |
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VICTIMS Actual and Potential |
• Document and identify: kind and extent of violence; conditions supporting it; effects on women; what is needed to stop it; appropriate programmatic responses. |
• Offer protection to victims (shelter, crisis intervention, etc.) • Provide medical, legal, & therapeutic assistance. • Establish support systems. |
EMPOWER
women to:
• Develop a social analysis of violence. • Understand extent/limits of the law. • Create new options by developing skills (self- confidence, self-defense, employment, political, etc.). • Organize for political action. |
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THE PUBLIC |
• Identify: popular beliefs about causes of gender violence; attitudes of tolerance/acceptance, etc. by men and women. | • Provide
information on the prevalence of gender violence in society.
• Supply information on available resources/procedures, etc. |
• Make violence a political issue, relevant to all. |
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INSTITUTIONS |
• Identify:
influential institutions & groups; their mechanisms for affecting social
values and attitudes on gender violence.
• Identify cultural and economic practices that facilitate violence. |
• Assist
institutions close to victims (religious, social, etc.) To provide relevant
support.
• Collaborate with state agencies to provide adequate services. • Train medical, legal, & other personnel to adequately respond to victims' needs/rights. |
• Cultivate
constituencies and allies in key institutions and groups.
• Challenge religious, educational, professional, economic authorities to take appropriate action. • Engage them in political action. • Counter negative institutional influences (through education, dialogue, protest, boycott, etc.) |
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LAWS and POLICIES |
• Evaluate
laws dealing with violence (ideological base, intent, adequacy)
• Identify how laws can be improved, expand women's rights, protections, and alternatives. • Develop a new legal framework to reflect the concepts of gender violence, alternative sanctions, etc. |
• Use legal means available to obtain protection or redress. | At local,
national, international levels:
• Propose more adequate laws. • Introduce new frameworks and arguments. • Mobilize public support through campaigns, protests, etc. • Lobby legislative bodies for passage of new laws, procedures, policies. |
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ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES Judges Prosecutors Police |
• Document
how the law are enforced: frequency of reporting; how victims are treated;
frequency of prosecutions; biases of police and prosectutors; etc.
• Identify what is needed to improve enforcement of the law. • Document how cases are handled in the courts: number of cases prosecuted; judgements; sentences; bias of judges; etc. |
• Pressure
police to enforce the law, prosecute gender violence crimes, and be respectful
of the victims.
• Propose suitable procedures, if needed. • Set up accountability mechanisms. • Identify and use sympathetic courts. • Challenge or confront the courts through, legal and political means, to comply with he law. |
• Educate
police and prosecutors to develop new attitudes & skills in dealing
with gender violence.
• Monitor police handling of violence cases and police behavior. • Elaborate alternative approaches regarding victims and perpetrators. • Make judges aware of their gender biases and cultivate new patterns of judicial behavior. • Use litigation and test cases to improve behaviour of the courts. |
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