GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

PCPL JEYROSE B MAGON

RWCPD PRO6
WHAT IS GENDER – BASED
VIOLENCE?

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 GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

Any THREATENED OR ACTUAL HARMFUL ACT

targeted at women and girls or men
and boys as an EXPRESSION OF DIFFERENTIAL
POWER whether it is from males to
females, females to males or between members
of the same sex.
 GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

The acts may be VERBAL, PHYSICAL, SEXUAL,

ECONOMIC, EMOTIONAL and PSYCHOLOGICAL or a
combination and may also take any other
form whether in PRIVATE or PUBLIC and
during ANY STAGE OF LIFE.
 GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

Because gender based violence affects women and

girls more than boys and men,
the term is often used interchangeably with
“VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN”.
 GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

But this is not to deny the

fact that boys and men do also
face and suffer from gender based violence.
It is violence involving men and women
in which the WOMEN IS USUALLY A VICTIM.
 GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

It is derived from UNEQUAL POWER

RELATIONSHIPS between men and women. Violence is
directed specifically AGAINST A WOMAN BECAUSE
SHE IS A WOMAN, or affects women disproportionately.
 GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

It includes but not limited to physical, sexual

and psychological harm (including intimidation,
suffering, coercion and/or deprivation of liberty
within the family, or within the general
community).
 GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

According to the Technical Working Group of

the PNP Committee on Enhancing Gender-
Responsiveness Program, GBV cases are acts or
omissions committed in violation of the enacted laws.
 POSSIBLE VIOLATED LAWS
ON GBV CASES
• Republic Act No. 10364 Anti – Trafficking in
Persons Act
• Republic Act No. 10361 Domestic Workers Act
or Batas Kasambahay
• Republic Act No. 10121 Philippine Disaster Risk
Reduction and Management Act of 2010
 POSSIBLE VIOLATED LAWS
ON GBV CASES
• Republic Act No. 9995 Anti-Photo and
Video Voyeurism Act or Anti-Boso Law
• Republic Act No. 9851 Philippine Act on
Crimes Against International Humanitarian
Law, Genocide and other crimes Against
Humanity of 2009
 POSSIBLE VIOLATED LAWS
ON GBV CASES
• Republic Act No. 9775 Anti-Child Pornography
Act of 2009
• Republic Act No. 9745 Anti-Torture Act of 2009
• Republic Act No. 9710 Magna Carta for Women
 POSSIBLE VIOLATED LAWS
ON GBV CASES
• Republic Act No. 9344 Juvenile Justice and
Welfare Act of 2006
• Republic Act No. 9262 Anti Violence against
Women and Children Act of 2004
• Republic Act No. 9231 Elimination of Worst
Forms of Child Labor
 POSSIBLE VIOLATED LAWS
ON GBV CASES
• Republic Act No. 9208 Anti-Trafficking In
Persons Act of 2003
• Republic Act No. 8353 Anti- Rape Law
of 1997 in relation to RA 8505-
Rape Victim Assistance and Protection
Act of 1998
 POSSIBLE VIOLATED LAWS
ON GBV CASES
• Republic Act No. 7610 Special Protection of
Children Against Abuse, Exploitation and
Discrimination Act of 1992
• Republic Act No. 7277 Magna Carta for Disabled
Persons
• Republic Act No. 7877 Anti-Sexual Harassment
Act of 1995
WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT
FORMS OF GENDER –
BASED VIOLENCE?
FORMS OF GENDER – BASED VIOLENCE

1. Domestic Violence

2. Harmful Traditional Practice

3. Forms Of Violence Under Republic Act

No. 9262 (Anti-violence against Women and

their Children Act Of 2004)

 FORMS OF GENDER –
BASED VIOLENCE
• Physical Violence

• Sexual Violence

• Psychological Violence

• Economic Abuse
 FORMS OF GENDER –
BASED VIOLENCE
4. Sexual Violence Cases for Women
• Harassment
• Rape
• Sexual Exploitation
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexual Harassment
 FORMS OF GENDER –
BASED VIOLENCE

• Trafficking
• Forced Prostitution
 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

• Actual or threatened harmful acts perpetrated within

a family/domestic environment.
• Typical examples are wife battery, child molestation,
marital rape, incest, confinement, torture, verbal
insult, bullying etc.
HARMFUL TRADITIONAL PRACTICES

• Cultural or customary acts that are carried

out by communities but which inflict harm
on their targets.
• Typical examples are female genital mutilation,
wife inheritance, early marriage, child marriages,
child labour, labour, honour killing, scarification,
discriminatory dietary ractices, ritual killings etc.
 PHYSICAL VIOLENCE

It refers to acts that include bodily or

physical harm.
 SEXUAL VIOLENCE
Any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual
act, unwanted sexual comments or advances or acts
to traffic a person or
people for sexual purposes by any person
regardless of their relationship in private or
in public.
PSYCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE
It refers to acts or omissions causing or
likely to cause mental or emotional
suffering of the victim.
ECONOMIC ABUSE
It refers to acts that make or attempt to
make a woman financially dependent.
 HARASSMENT
• Any comment or behaviour that is unwelcome,
offensive, demeaning, humiliating, derogatory,
inappropriate or fails to respect the dignity
of an individual.
• It can be committed by or against
any beneficiary, partner, employee, official or any
other person involved in any way in
the humanitarian response.
 RAPE
• Rape of women and men is often
used as a weapon of war, as
a form of attack on the enemy,
typifying the conquest and degradation of its
women or captured male fighters.
 RAPE
• It may also be used to punish
women for transgressing social or moral codes,
for instance, those prohibiting adultery or
drunkenness in public.
 RAPE
• Women and men may also be raped when in
police custody or in prison.
• Rape/Attempted rape may include: rape of an
adult female, rape of a minor (male or female)
including incest, gang rape (if there is more than
one assailant), marital rape (between husband
and wife), and male rape (sometimes known as
sodomy)
 SEXUAL EXPLOITATION

Any abuse of a position of vulnerability,

differential power, or trust for sexual purposes;
this includes profiting monetarily, socially of
politically from the sexual exploitation of another.
 SEXUAL ABUSE

Actual or threatened physical intrusion of a sexual

nature, including inappropriate touching, by force of
under unequal or coercive conditions.
 SEXUAL HARASSMENT
Any act of a sexual nature that
is unwelcome, uninvited and unrequested and which
makes its target uncomfortable, offended, demeaned,
humiliated coerced and undignified.
 TRAFFICKING
It refers to the recruitment, transportation, transfer
or harboring, or receipt of persons with or without the
victim’s consent or knowledge within or across national
borders, by means of threat or use of force, or other
forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse
of power or of position... for the purpose of
exploitation…
 (FORCED) PROSTITUTION
It refers to any act, transaction, scheme or
design involving the use of a
person by another, for sexual intercourse or
lascivious conduct in exchange for money, profit
or any other consideration.
 HOW CAN WE BE GENDER-
SENSITIVE IN OUR APPROACH
TO GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE?
 GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR
GBV WORK
 Confidentiality
 Respect-for her dignity, wishes
 Safety- top priority
 No discrimination- everyone gets equal
treatment
 GBV PREVENTION

• Prevention work involves a good understanding

of the CAUSES of violence.

• Gender inequality is the root cause of

GBV- females are considered to be of
less value than males.
 GBV PREVENTION

• Prevention work involves a good Strong

response to GBV can be a form
of prevention.
 GOOD RESPONSE TO GBV

• A strong justice response to GBV works

as a prevention mechanism.
• Community values that do not accept GBV
are also prevention mechanisms.
Ipaglaban natin
ang karapatan
ng kababaihan!
 KEY LEARNING POINTS
1. GBV is an expression of unequal power
relationships and affects women and girls more
than men and boys.

2. GBV cases are acts or omissions committed

in violation of laws.

3. GBV takes on many forms.

 KEY LEARNING POINTS
4. Gender-sensitive approach to GBV cases is
guided by principles and the rights of
the survivors and is directed in giving
them back the act of control to make
choices on their own.
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