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The Crisis in Tigray: Women and Girls Under Violent Assault
Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security The Crisis in Tigray: Women and Girls Under Violent Assault 10:00AM-11:15AM EDT RSVP here for the virtual event Civil war rages on in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region and women and girls are under attack. Amidst a media blackout, the world is just learning of the scope of the brutality. Coordinated rapes in Tigray are being deliberately used as a weapon of war and only one medical facility in the region is equipped to respond to rape survivors. The violence in Tigray has killed thousands of people and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes. The UN Security Council has yet to act. Join leading policymakers and voices from Tigray and the greater region for an important discussion on what is happening, and what can be done to counter the human rights violations and atrocities committed against women and girls. Featuring: The Honorable Pramila Patten UN Special R...
Virtual Event: Access for Protection Through Participation: Working with Children, Adolescents and Their Communities
We are excited to invite to you our thematic virtual event on Wednesday 26th October at 10:00AM – 11:30AM CEST : ‘ACCESS FOR PROTECTION THROUGH PARTICIPATION: WORKING WITH CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND THEIR COMMUNITIES’ Overview: This interactive session will provide space to share learnings and promote exchange from projects and research being undertaken by the Global GBV and CP AoR, the Alliance for Children Protection in Humanitarian Action, and Save the Children, in partnership with communities and child / adolescent organisations. It will also be a chance to present research findings and recommendations for humanitarian involvement in community negotiations since the 2021 Global Protection Forum and to gather insights from an expert audience. A set of recommendations will be developed from the panel presentations and discussion based upon practical examples and the lived experience of young people in humanitarian settings on how to enhance acce...
GBV Considerations for Women and Girls- Cash in Ukraine and the Regional Refugee Response- UNFPA 2022
05 Apr, 2022
Cash assistance is a modality that will be used extensively inside conflict-affected Ukraine and in the regional refugee response, where feasible and appropriate (1). Given that the large majority of Ukrainian refugees are women and children, it is critical to ensure that cash programming does not put this particularly vulnerable population at further risk. This summary is a joint effort by the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Sub-Cluster/Working Groups and Cash Working Groups in Ukraine and the regional refugee response and it will revised periodically*. It aims to provide preliminary GBV considerations for humanitarian actors providing cash assistance to conflict-affected residents, IDPs, refugees and host communities. It also outlines key messages and hotline contacts to support cash actors in their coordination with protection counterparts. The following points are meant to orient cash actors in the way that they mainstream GBV risk mitigation into their progra...
قسائم شرائية لتغطية المواد األساسية وللوقاية من العنف القائم على النوع االجتماعي: فلسـطيـن
04 Oct, 2021
مع تفشي وباء كوفيد-19 ،تفاقمت مخاطر التعرض للعنف القائم على النوع االجتماعي بالنسبة للنساء والفتيات يف فلسطين. وقد ورد إلى صندوق األمم المتحدة للسكان من قبل الفئة المعنية من النساء أن ًا يف تفاقم هذه المخاطر تضاؤل الفرص االقتصادية فضالً عن الضغوط واألزمات المالية قد أسهموا جميع ً لالحتياجات ً لذلك، قدم صندوق األمم المتحدة للسكان قسائم شرائية تلبية إلى حدٍ بعيد. واستجابة الملحة لألسر ذات األوضاع االقتصادية الهشة وللنساء المعرضات لخطر العنف القائم على النوع ٍ من غزة والقدس الشرقية. وقد جاءت معدالت رضا المستفيدون عن هذه المساعدات االجتماعي يف كل مرتفعة إبان مراقبات ما بعد التوزيع. ففي قطاع غزة، أبلغ %97 من المستفيدين أن هذا البرنامج كان له تأثير إيجابي على صحتهم النفسية.
VOICE PRESENTS A LIVE WEBINAR: A 24-HOUR TRUCE
VOICE PRESENTS A LIVE WEBINAR: A 24-HOUR TRUCE Tuesday, June 29th at 10:30am Eastern / 7:30am Pacific VOICE is bringing together women and girls from around the world to discuss what it would be like if we had one day, just 24 hours, without sexual assault. "I want one day of respite, one day off, one day in which no new bodies are piled up, one day in which no new agony is added to the old, and I am asking you to give it to me. And how could I ask for less -- it is so little. And how could you offer me less: it is so little. Even in wars, there are days of truce. Go and organizing a truce. Stop your side for one day." - Andrea Dworkin In 1983, Andrea Dworkin gave a speech she called “TAKE BACK THE DAY: I Want a Twenty-Four-Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape”, which was published in 1984. Her speech is famous for its uncompromising naming of sexual violence – and rape in particular – as the embodiment of a sex-bas...
Supporting a Holistic Response for Women and Girls in the Gaza Strip 12 December 2023
11 Dec, 2023
The humanitarian community has been united in its call for unfettered humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip so that civilians can be reached with lifesaving commodities and services. Importantly, and to support this call, the Flash Appeal for OPT has identified the specific and intersectional impacts that the current crisis is having on women and girls, and recalls the commitment of humanitarian actors to uphold the centrality of protection, by ensuring considered, resourced, coordinated action, decision making, and leadership across all thematic areas of humanitarian response promote meaningful protection outcomes for crisis affected and at risk communities. To support women and girls impacted by this crisis, all humanitarian leadership (including all UN agencies, the Cross/Crescent Movement, and Cluster leadership), is called upon to continue to champion inclusion and integration of GBV prevention, response, risk mitigation and associated commodities within their own priorities, incl...
General GBV risk mitigation messages and recommendations Gaza response October 2023
21 Oct, 2023
Consultations with ALL affected groups, particularly women and girls in all of their diversity, remains critical even in emergency response. Do not rely only on information received from male community leaders. This tip sheet provides basic information on undertaking safe consultations with women & girls in emergency contexts. There is likely to be a significant number of unaccompanied minors arriving in the shelters which will have different/diverse needs from adults and different from each other based on gender, age range, etc. Women-headed households are also likely to be large in number and will also likely have different needs, barriers, challenges, etc. than intact family structures, as will persons living with disabilities. Ensure all such groups are represented in consultations and program planning. Some suggested key areas of inquiry for consultations are included below. Sector-specific areas of inquiry are available in the IASC GBV Guidelines.
Life for Women and Girls in the Gaza Strip and the International Response GBV Sub-Cluster Palestine Update and Advocacy Note – 12 December 2023
11 Dec, 2023
The violence being experienced by civilians in the Gaza Strip extends beyond suffering that human beings can endure. Gazans have been deprived of the essentials of food, water, shelter, medicine, and safety. For women and girls, gender-based violence (GBV), including physical and sexual violence, is a daily threat, and the combination of threats they face represent distinct and targeted attacks on their rights, identity, and dignity. This loss of dignity is primary to their experience of this crisis. Nowhere in the Gaza Strip is safe. Nearly 80% 3 of the Gazan population is now displaced and living in severely overcrowded shelters that offer limited “refuge.” Civilians and humanitarian and medical staff and infrastructure are under siege; health facilities are not functional due to damage or lack of generator fuel. There is an urgent need for unhindered humanitarian access to meet even the most basics. In the absence of an immediate and respected ceasefire, the humanitarian system must...
Regional Webinar: West and Central Africa (French): Tuesday, October 29th at 3pm West Africa Time / 4pm Central Africa Time
Launch of the new global resource “Women and Girls’ Safe Spaces: A Toolkit for Advancing Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment in Humanitarian Settings”. From 2017-2019, with support from the U.S. Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and International Medical Corps (IMC) led the development of this important toolkit in collaboration with women and girls and community members across 18 humanitarian settings. The toolkit will be available online in English and French in mid-November at gbvresponders.org. Ahead of its’ release IRC and IMC invite global and field practitioners to join one of the webinars (listed below) which will introduce the purpose and content of the toolkit. Regional Webinar: West and Central Africa (French): Tuesday, October 29th at 3pm West Africa Time / 4pm Central Africa Time Meeting URL https://bluejeans.com/949560870?src=joi...
Violence Basee Sur le Genre et Droits des Filles dans le Centre du Sahel - Rapport Synthetique
10 Nov, 2020
Plan International, Care International, UNFPA et le GBV AoR1 ont organisé un événement virtuel le 16 octobre 2020 à 15h30 CEST avant la table ronde ministérielle sur le Sahel central. L’événement visait à (i) amplifier les voix et les priorités des filles du Burkina Faso, du Mali et du Niger2 en offrant une occasion unique d’apprendre de l’expérience de première main et de recevoir des recommandations des filles touchées, (ii) d’attirer l’attention sur les défis critiques à la prévention et à la réponse à la VBG de la part des groupes locaux de femmes et plaider pour la solidarité mondiale autour de la VBG3 , (iii) motiver les acteurs gouvernementaux et les donateurs4 à s’engager à renforcer la prévention, l’atténuation des risques et la réponse à la VBG, en rehaussant le profil de l’Appel à l’action sur la la protection de la VBG dans les situations d’urgence (AaA VBG) et la garantie des droits des femmes et des filles sont au cœur de l’action humanitaire et à travers le triple lien. ...