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Publication:
Victories over Violence: Ensuring Safety for Women and
Girls - A Practitioner's Manual
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.
Authors:
Mahnaz Afkhami, Haleh Vaziri
Whatever
the form of abuse and the analysis of its causes, the defining feature of
violence against women 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.
Victories
over Violence: Ensuring Safety for Women and Girls is a practitioners'
manual, comprised of 16 sessions which unfold in a progression—moving from
violence at home or in the private sphere, to the community or public space, to
the transnational and international arenas. Case studies in each session are drawn
from actual events and feature stories set in societies as diverse as
Within
each session, the case study serves to spark conversation about the causes and
consequences of violence against women and girls, the choices that victims make
to survive and re-build their lives, as well as the measures practitioners take
in addressing these human rights violations. Following the case studies are
“questions for discussion,” and all but the last two sessions feature learning
exercises.
The
resulting dialogue allows the participants to identify and prioritize their
concerns and to recognize obstacles as they strive to prevent violence and to
vindicate the human rights of those victimized by it.
