Ending Violence Against Women: A challenge for development and humanitarian work

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Author(s)
Pickup, Francine
Williams, Suzanne
Sweetman, Caroline
Publication date
2000-10-26
Subject
Gender
Keywords
Gender-based violence

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam GB
Practical Action Publishing
Series
Development Guidelines
Document type
Book
Description
Violence, and women's fear of it, limits women's choices in virtually all spheres of life. It has long-term, as well as short-term consequences on women's physical and emotional well-being. It detrimentally affects women's ability to gain an education, earn a livelihood, develop human relationships and participate in public activities, including development programmes.In this book addressing violence against women, development workers go to the heart of how members of communities relate to one another and how they are able to shape their own lives.The first section of the book examines the many different definitions of violence against woman and offers theories about why it happens in all societies across the world. It discusses the current momentum around the issue and asks why development organizations have been slow to take up the struggle to end violence against woman. The second section focuses on strategies to counter violence against women and support the survivors. Case studies come from times of peace and times of armed conflict. Sections suggest strategies for transforming attitudes and beliefs in different societies that condone such violence, for supporting individual survivors, and to ensure that governments and NGOs fulfil their duty to protect woman.
Table of contents
Part 1: Exploring violence against women; 1. Explaining violence against women as a development concern; 2. Human rights and development responses to violence against women; 3. The prevalence, forms, and impacts of violence against women; 4. The contexts in which violence against women occurs; Part 2: Strategies for challenging violence against women; 5. Direct support to the survivors of violence; 6. Challenges to violent men Why work with male perpetrators?; 7. Challenging attitudes and beliefs; 8. Challenging the State; 9. Conclusion; Appendix 1 The three phases of Rape Trauma Syndrome; Appendix 2 The KwaZulu Natal programme for the Survivors of Violence framework for understanding the effects of political violence and responding to it; Notes, Bibliography, Index
Pages
386
ISBN
978-0-85598-438-0
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/115387
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https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/ending-violence-against-women-a-challenge-for-development-and-humanitarian-work-115387
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