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    The document defines violence against women and their children (VAWC) and gender-based violence (GBV). It notes that VAWC includes physical, sexual, psychological, or emotional harm to women and children, while GBV is violence against women due to their subordinate status in society. GBV occurs in families, communities, and is also perpetuated by discriminatory laws and policies. Addressing GBV requires an integrated approach and a focus on masculinity, male culture, and the impacts on communities and society, not just individual victims.

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    The document defines violence against women and their children (VAWC) and gender-based violence (GBV). It notes that VAWC includes physical, sexual, psychological, or emotional harm to women and children, while GBV is violence against women due to their subordinate status in society. GBV occurs in families, communities, and is also perpetuated by discriminatory laws and policies. Addressing GBV requires an integrated approach and a focus on masculinity, male culture, and the impacts on communities and society, not just individual victims.

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    The document defines violence against women and their children (VAWC) and gender-based violence (GBV). It notes that VAWC includes physical, sexual, psychological, or emotional harm to women and children, while GBV is violence against women due to their subordinate status in society. GBV occurs in families, communities, and is also perpetuated by discriminatory laws and policies. Addressing GBV requires an integrated approach and a focus on masculinity, male culture, and the impacts on communities and society, not just individual victims.

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    The document defines violence against women and their children (VAWC) and gender-based violence (GBV). It notes that VAWC includes physical, sexual, psychological, or emotional harm to women and children, while GBV is violence against women due to their subordinate status in society. GBV occurs in families, communities, and is also perpetuated by discriminatory laws and policies. Addressing GBV requires an integrated approach and a focus on masculinity, male culture, and the impacts on communities and society, not just individual victims.

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    Understanding

    Violence Against
    Women and their
    Children (VAWC)
    and Gender-Based
    Violence (GBV)

    1
    The Anti-Violence Against Women and
    their Children Act of 2004”. R.A. 9262 is a
    special law that defines acts of violence
    against women and their children, or “VAWC”;
    penalizes such acts; and provides protective
    measures and remedies.

    2
    Violence Against Women and their
    Children (VAWC)
    The 18-Day Campaign to End Violence
    Against Women and Children is observed
    annually from November 25 to December 12 to
    raise awareness among all stakeholders that
    VAWC is a public issue of national concern

    3
    Violence Against Women and their
    Children (VAWC)
    Violence Against Women and their Children
    (VAWC) is any act of gender-based violence that
    results in physical, sexual, psychological or
    emotional harm or suffering to women and
    children.

    4
    Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
    ▣ is any violence inflicted on women because of their
    sex
    ▣ Gender-based violence is violence against women
    based on women’s subordinate status in society. It
    includes any act or threat by men or male dominated
    institutions that inflict physical, sexual, or
    psychological harm on a woman or girl because of
    their gender

    5
    Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
    ▣ Gender-based violence is not exclusively a woman’s
    concern
    ▣ It is both a cause and consequence of gender perceptions
    ▣ The use of the term ‘gender-based violence’ provides a
    new context in which to examine and understand the
    phenomenon of violence against women.
    ▣ It shifts the focus from women as victims to gender and the
    unequal power relationships between women and men
    created and maintained by gender stereotypes as the basic
    underlying cause of violence against women.
    6
    Types of Gender-Based Violence
    ▣ Overt physical abuse (includes battering, sexual assault,
    at home or in the workplace)
    ▣ Psychological abuse (includes deprivation of liberty,
    forced marriage, sexual harassment, at home or in the
    workplace)
    ▣ Deprivation of resources needed for physical and
    psychological well-being (including health care, nutrition,
    education, means of livelihood)
    ▣ Treatment of women as commodities (includes
    trafficking in women and girls for sexual exploitation)
    7
    Sites of Gender-Based Violence

    1.Family
     is one of the primary sites of gender violence
     prepares its members for social life, forms gender
    stereotypes and perceptions of division of labor
    between the sexes
     is the arena where physical abuses (spousal
    battering, sexual assault, sexual abuse) and/or
    psychological abuses occur
    8
    Sites of Gender-Based Violence

    2.Community /Society
    ▣ as a group sharing common social, cultural, religious
    or ethnic belonging, it perpetuates existing family
    structure and power inequalities in family and
    society
    ▣ justifies the behavior of male abusers aimed at
    establishing control over women in the family, and
    supports harmful traditional practices such as
    battering and corporal punishment
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    Sites of Gender-Based Violence

    3. State
    ▣ legitimizes power inequalities in family and society
    and perpetuates gender-based violence through
    enactment of discriminatory laws and policies or
    through the discriminatory application of the law.
    ▣ is responsible for tolerance of gender violence on
    an unofficial level (i.e. in the family and in the
    community).

    10
    Summary
    ▣ There are multiple approaches to gender-based
    violence (i.e. human rights, health, development)
    and they are being integrated to address the
    problem.
    ▣ The topic is no longer merely about the survivors,
    the women who have been and are abused, but also
    about those who abuse.

    11
    ▣ The topic now focuses not just on the individual man
    but also on the concept of masculinity and male
    culture
    ▣ The notion of the impact of gender-based violence is
    expanding from considering the immediate effects
    on the women to examining the effects on the larger
    community, family and society
    ▣ Gender-based violence is not just a ‘women’s issue’,
    but an issue that concerns all men and not just
    individual perpetrators.
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    Thank you for listening 
    To God be All the Glory!

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