Patriarchal Violence – An Attack on Human Security
A broad survey of measures to combat patriarchal
violence and oppression
Gerd
Johnsson-Latham - Ministry of Justice, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Swedish
Government Offices, 2006
Available online as
PDF file [85p.] at: http://www.sweden.gov.se/content/1/c6/05/68/94/42d6d51b.
The
study covers the work that has been carried out both internationally and in
Level
1: Addressing and
codifying the violence and oppression in conventions, laws and other key
documents
Level
2: Clarifying the
systematic nature, extent, manifestations and costs of patriarchal violence and
oppression
Level
3: Acknowledging and
analysing the underlying causes of violence and
oppression
Level
4. Developing
institutional measures: funding, training, joint action,
guidelines
Level
5: Operative measures
in the form of victim protection, etc.
The
study ends with conclusions and a description of possible priorities for future
work in this
field.