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Support Indian NGOs' Campaign for Comprehensive Legislation on Domestic Violence
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Indian NGOs, activists, and women's organizations have been campaigning for a civil law on domestic violence since December 1999. Pursuant to extensive consultations with women's groups from across India, in-depth academic research, grassroots action, and experience working with victims of domestic violence, in 2001 the New Delhi-based Lawyers Collective, Women's Rights Initiative (LCWRI) drafted a bill for the prevention of domestic violence against women with unanimous support from numerous Indian women's organizations.
Turkey's Domestic Violence Law: Protection of the Family
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According to Clause 1, "If a spouse or child or another member of the family living under the same roof is subject to abuse, and notification is made either by the victim or by the Public Prosecutor, in addition to the provisions of the Turkish Civil Code, taking into consideration the specific circumstances, a Justice of the Peace can pass one or more of the following rulings or take any other measures that are deemed appropriate."
Leading to Change: Eliminating Violence Against Women in Muslim Societies
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March 1, 2005: Women have been systematically deprived of knowledge and skills that might help them to become better equipped to protect themselves against violence, including knowledge of the existing laws, religious texts, positive cultural resources, international injunctions on human rights, and the demands made by other women for rights in their community and elsewhere. In the WLP Symposium, speakers will address major challenges to eliminating violence against women and girls and discuss grassroots, national, and regional measures needed to raise awareness, initiate reform legislation, and create synergy for ongoing efforts to prevent violence and to promote women's human rights.
WLP Activities at the 2013 Women Deliver Conference, May 28-30, 2013
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Tuesday, May 28th
11:30 – 13:00
Strategising for a Culture of Gender-Inclusive Democracy in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) Region
Room 409 Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre
A Call from the Arab Caucus at the 57th Commission on the Status of Women
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**WLP joins partner organizations and others in the MENA region, and those from outside the region standing in solidarity for women’s full human rights, including the right to be free from violence, in the MENA region. The statement below was originally posted on here on the Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies website.**
March 6 Event: Human Security: The missing link between women’s rights, conflict, and peace
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Women’s Learning Partnership
in partnership with
the Center for Public Scholarship & the Gender Studies Program at
The New School
presents
Human Security: The missing link between women’s rights, conflict, and peace
3:30 PM – 7:30 PM, March 6th, 2013
WLP's 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence.
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Each year activists, youth, local and international organizations, and governmental officials committed to eliminating violence against women participate in the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence. This annual campaign commences on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and lasts through December 10, International Human Rights Day.
As part of WLP’s 2012 campaign activities, we held the online premieres of our Arabic, French, and Spanish subtitled-editions of the documentary, From Fear to Freedom: Ending Violence Against Women. In WLP’s film, released in 2012, leading experts and activists from across the globe discuss the root causes of gender-based violence (GBV), share strategies to combat it, and provide inspiring accounts of the important milestones already achieved through the international women’s movement.
Eliminating Violence Against Women
Violence against women and girls is both a global and local societal ill—global because its perpetrators and victims are in every corner of the world, and local because its forms differ from one place to the next depending on specific cultural, political and socio-economic circumstances.
Whatever the form of abuse (domestic violence, violence in conflict situations, etc.) and the analysis of its causes, the defining feature of this violence is the perpetrators’ goal of controlling women and girls. This control entails the imposition of certain gender roles on females, restrictions on women’s and girls’ physical movements and even efforts to own their bodies as property. Although the perpetrators of this violence are generally men, women may be complicit in sustaining and fortifying male dominance in all aspects of life.
Films
WLP is pleased to release our new documentary, Because Our Cause Is Just, on the backlash against women's rights in the Middle East/North Africa region during this period of political transition. Click here to view the film.
