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Date: November 22, 2024 Fri
Time: 11:39 am
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Results for intimate partner violence (west africa)
1 results foundAuthor: International Rescue Committee Title: Let Me Not Die Before My Time: Domestic Violence in West Africa Summary: Domestic violence knows no boundaries, and many of the stories and findings included in this report could describe the experiences of women in virtually any country. Too often, women’s subordinate status allows violence to occur in silence and prevents women from seizing opportunities. For this report, the IRC has chosen to focus on West Africa in order to demonstrate how this global problem becomes acute in post-conflict countries, keeping women from leading their societies to peace and prosperity. The destruction of war creates a particularly dangerous situation for women that the humanitarian community can no longer ignore. The International Rescue Committee has carried out programs for women in West Africa for over a decade and witnessed a rocky but progressive transition to peace in the region. Yet women are still not safe. Across Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone, years after the official end of these countries’ brutal wars, women are being intimidated, threatened and beaten with shocking frequency. And even though the focus of the humanitarian community has often been on armed groups, the primary threat to women in West Africa is not a man with a gun or a stranger. It is their husbands. This report aims to bring attention to a problem that is standing in the way of women and their empowerment in a region where women’s leadership is so needed. The international community has begun to wake up to the threats women and girls face in wartime and after. While this awareness has opened a window for critically important programs, efforts to keep women and girls safe have overwhelmingly focused on the public side of violence—risks faced outside the home. Over 60% of assault survivors whom the IRC assists in West Africa are seeking help because of violence committed by an intimate partner. It is time for the humanitarian community to confront the violence occurring behind closed doors and ensure that in countries transitioning to peace, that peace extends to the home. This report calls for more attention to be paid to domestic violence as a humanitarian issue that is common, devastating and often unreported. It argues that donor responses, in terms of both the scale of programming and the approaches used, have been mismatched to the needs women express. Too often, the scarce resources provided for programs treat violence against women and girls as a one-time occurrence, requiring discrete interventions to heal wounds or prosecute perpetrators. Details: New York: International Rescue Committee, 2012. 32p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 13, 2012 at http://www.rescue.org/sites/default/files/resource-file/IRC_Report_DomVioWAfrica.pdf?q=domesticviolencereport Year: 2012 Country: Africa URL: http://www.rescue.org/sites/default/files/resource-file/IRC_Report_DomVioWAfrica.pdf?q=domesticviolencereport Shelf Number: 125347 Keywords: Domestic Violence (West Africa)Family Violence (West Africa)Intimate Partner Violence (West Africa)Violence Against Women (West Africa) |