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3 results foundAuthor: Rosemann, Ute Title: Protect - Identifying and Protecting High Risk Victims of Gender Base Violence - An Overview Summary: The project PROTECT aims at contributing to the prevention and reduction of the most serious forms of gender-based violence against girls, young women and their children, such as grievous bodily harm, homicide and attempted homicide, including so-called honour crimes and killings. Gender-based intimate partner violence against women and girls can take very severe forms such as grievous bodily harm, deprivation of liberty by locking victims up, often over days or even years, attempted murder or murder. These crimes seem to be motivated by different factors and concepts – extreme jealousy, possessiveness, accusation of ‘dishonouring‘ the family and other reasons – however, all of these crimes seem to have the similar goal of exercising power over women and girls and controlling their lives. Any move that is seen as a challenge to such concepts of power and control, e.g., if a woman or girl tries to leave her violent partner or father, can endanger her life, health and liberty. Ultimately, the beneficiaries of this project are women, young women, and girls, who are at high risk of severe violations of their fundamental human rights: the right to life, health and liberty. Research shows that violence can be reduced by systematically identifying and comprehensively protecting victims at high risk. Such coordinated interventions are still missing in most EU countries and regions; therefore the project aims at improving the protection of high risk victims. The project’s target groups are professionals from core agencies responsible for the protection and support of victims and the prevention of violence, organisations and institutions working in the area of violence prevention, policy makers and – last but not least – victims of gender-based violence. the report is structured in three main chapters: II. A Summary of intimate partner violence and intimate partner femicide risk assessment studies, II. B. Report on research results related to mapping of eight countries concerning the protection and safety of high risk victims of gender based intimate partner violence, including a description of the functioning of the MARACs in England and Wales, and II. C. Availability of reliable, systematically collected and analysed data on gender-based intimate partner homicide / femicide in Europe. The last section of the PROTECT final research report provides conclusions based on the outcomes of the project. Details: Vienna: WAVE - Women Against Violence Europe, 2010. 92p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 22, 2011 at: http://www.wave-network.org/start.asp?ID=23494 Year: 2010 Country: Europe URL: http://www.wave-network.org/start.asp?ID=23494 Shelf Number: 121480 Keywords: FemicideGender Based ViolenceHomicideHonor KillingsIntimate Partner ViolenceRisk AssessmentViolence Against Women (Europe) |
Author: Begikhani, Nazand Title: Honour-based Violence (HBV) and Honour-based Killings in Iraqi Kurdistan and in the Kurdish Diaspora in the UK Summary: This Final Report to the Kurdistan Regional Government addresses 'honour'-based violence (HBV), and killings in the name of family 'honour,' in Kurdish communities, particularly in Iraqi Kurdistan but also in the UK. 'Honour'-based violence is a wide-spread and distressing form of family and gender violence occuring in many countries in the world. In 2008, the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), on the initiative of the former PM, Mr. Nechirvan Barzani, took the unprecedented step of commissioning an international research project on 'honour'-based violence in Kurdistan and within the Kurdish Diaspora. The KRG is to be congratulated on taking this step to start to address the issue, as one part of a wider Government strategy, including the setting up of the Government Honour-based Violence against Women. These initiatives were designed to contribute to the committed democratization and modernization process currently underway in Iraqi Kurdistan, including the integration of gender issues into social and public policy. The study commissioned by the KRG was a pioneering and unique piece of research, breaking new ground for social researchers in Kurdistan Region. It was carried out between 2008 and 2010 by a consortium of senior researchers from the Centre for Gender and Violence Research, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK, and Roehampton University, UK, working in partnership with the Kurdish women's organization, Kurdish Women's Rights Watch (KWRW) which is based in London with an office in Iraqi Kurdistan. The research was a practice and policy analysis, which aimed to enable social development and change in response to this pervasive form of violence, but also to evolve new theoretical insights. The aim was to follow best practice in trans-national research on gender issues, consciously attempting to avoid ethnocentrism and the imposition of Western ideas, and to understand and respect cultural issues and traditional practices, while working towards modernization. The team also took the view throughout that HBV is a wide-spread phenomenon and that Kurdish society and communities must not be singled out or stigmatized in this respect. Nevertheless, it is important that the issue is addressed in Kurdish communities, as well as others, to lead to social development and to address harmful social practice where they exist. The research was investigated in detail and then approved by the Ethics Committees of both the University of Bristol and Roehampton University. The Universities provided financial and project management and ethical oversight throughout, and also developed comprehensive risk assessment agreements, and security arrangements and procedures, which were complied with by all participants across the duration of the study. Details: Bristol, United Kingdom: Centre for Gender and Violence Research, University of Bristol, UK; Roehampton University, UK; Kurdish Women's Rights Watch, 2010. 166p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 10, 2012 at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sps/research/projects/reports/2010/rw9038reportenglish.pdf Year: 2010 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sps/research/projects/reports/2010/rw9038reportenglish.pdf Shelf Number: 124000 Keywords: Gender-Based ViolenceHonor KillingsHonor Related Violence (Kurds) (U.K.) |
Author: Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation Title: Postcode Lottery: Police Recording of Reported 'Honour' Based Violence Summary: In undertaking the research for this report we, the Iranian and Kurdish women's rights Organisation (IKWRO), set out to ascertain the scale of reported 'honour' based violence (HBV) in the UK and to check that police forces are properly recording HBV cases. Flagging (labelling) of HBV cases is essential to enable the safeguarding of victims and those at risk. It allows the scale of the reported problem to be understood, both locally and nationally, and helps prevent under-resourcing. Once an HBV case is properly flagged, it reduces the risk of other police officers failing to identify it as HBV, not acting appropriately and endangering the victim, for example by negotiating with their family or community. It is also crucial for risk profiling and risk management. We submitted Freedom of Information Requests to every police force across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. We were encouraged by the fact that we received a response from every police force. I would like to take this opportunity to thank each police force for their co-operation. What became apparent from the responses, is that it is not possible to establish the full scale of reported HBV. This is because a significant proportion, 20% of police forces, failed to flag all HBV cases reported to them. This failure puts lives at risk. In this report we have set out recommendations to help 'honour' based violence be tackled effectively. We hope that the government, the Association of Chief Police Officers, all police forces and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary will commit to implementing these recommendations, to ensure the protection of those at risk of HBV. Details: London: IKWRO, 2014. 19p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 8, 2014 at: http://ikwro.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/HBV-FOI-report-Post-code-lottery-04.02.2014-Final.pdf Year: 2014 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://ikwro.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/HBV-FOI-report-Post-code-lottery-04.02.2014-Final.pdf Shelf Number: 132298 Keywords: Honor KillingsHonor-Based Violence (U.K.)Violence Against Women |