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Smashing Spatial Patriarchy: Shifting gender norms driving sexual and gender-based violence on public transport in Sri Lanka
Parvez Butt, Anam Sekaram, Sharanya
Parvez Butt, Anam
Sekaram, Sharanya
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2019-07-23
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<p>With rising urbanization following a civil war, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV)<br />
on public transport has become increasingly relevant in Sri Lanka, as women, girls and<br />
transgender and gender non-conforming people enter historically masculinized<br />
spaces more than before. Despite important legislative and policy advances, sexual<br />
harassment on public transport is widely under-reported, and suffers from both<br />
bystander and duty bearer inaction.</p>
<p>The campaign in Sri Lanka, ‘Not on my Bus’, co-created with local partners,<br />
aims to reduce sexual harassment in public transport through promoting bystander<br />
intervention. It focuses on challenging the harmful norms that bystander intervention<br />
will not help or even worsen matters, and that the responsibility for action solely<br />
rests on survivors. It seeks to promote positive norms that bystanders should<br />
intervene and that it is everyone’s responsibility to uphold everyone’s rights<br />
to violence-free public spaces.</p>
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978-1-78748-441-2