Violence Against Women and Children PowerPoint Presentation for Gender and Development Sessions

This contains basic information of VAWC LAW in the Philippines

1. VIOLENCE
AGAINST
WOMEN

2. What is Violence against Women
•Any act of gender-based violence
that results in, or is likely to result
in, physical, sexual or mental harm
or suffering to women, including
threats of such acts, coercion or
arbitrary deprivation of liberty,
whether occurring in private or
public life.
»As defined by United Nations

3. VAW
•There is a need to
distinguish between
violence in general and
gender-based violence.
•In VAW, the abuse of
power, control, force and
coercion are evident and
condoned by society
primarily because the
victims are women.

4. •VAW refers to all forms of violence
inflicted on women on account of their
gender
•It is about power and control
•It cuts across race, religion, income,
class and culture
•VAW is any violation of a woman’s
personhood, mental or physical
integrity or freedom of movement
•It is a CRIME and a VIOLATION of her
HUMAN RIGHTS

5. OCCURRENCE OF VAW
•VAW occurs in the
family
--including battering,
sexual abuse of female
children in the
household, dowry-
related violence,
marital rape, female
genital mutilation
•VAW occurs within the
general community
--includes date rape,
sexual harassment,
intimidation at work, in
educational institutions
and elsewhere,
trafficking in women
and forced prostitution

6. HERE ARE SOME STATISTICS (FROM NSO
2008 NATIONAL DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY)
Percentage of women age 15 to 49 who have ever
experienced physicalviolenceby region
Soccksargen 34.7
Central Visayas 28.1
Northern Mindanao 27.8
Eastern Visayas 24.2
Spousal violence-about one in 3 ever married woman (29
percent have experienced any kind of violence by a husband
or partner
Sex trafficking, ¾ of trafficked victims served in EV by the
DSWD were women
This is what is going on in our society.

7. PURSUIT PHASE
Tension
Depression
Anxiety
Fear
STANDOVER
PHASE
Tension
Anxiety
Depression
VIOLENT
OUTBURST
Physical injury
Fear
1
2
3
HONEYMOON
PHASE
Denial of
problem
BUILD UP
PHASE
Tension
Anxiety
Depression
SHORTENING OF THE CYCLE OF
VIOLENCE
REMORSE PHASE
Temporary relief of
symptoms

8. Interrupting the cycle
•The survivor-to make decision regarding the abusive
relationship and act on her decision.
•The perpetrator-to recognize his faults, show sincere
remorse, and develop non-violent conflict resolution skills.
•The community-to take active role in the prevention of
violence, and provide support to the survivor.
–Violence is not a private matter, but a public concern
that has to be addressed through the concerted effort
of the government, church, academe, health sector,
etc.

9. Violence against women and their children
•refers to any act or a series of acts committed by
any person against a woman who is his wife,
former wife
•or against a woman with whom the person has or
had a sexual or dating relationship, or with whom
he has a common child
•or against her child whether legitimate or
illegitimate, within or without the family abode,

10. •which result in or is likely to result in physical,
sexual, psychological harm or suffering, or
economic abuse
•including threats of such acts, battery, assault,
coercion, harassment or arbitrary deprivation of
liberty.

11. Financial

12. •"Physical Violence" refers to acts that include bodily or
physical harm
•May be a single, manual act or a series of different acts
or a combination of assaults with use of weapons
•Women have been hit with a fist, slapped, poked in the
eye, strangle, kicked in different parts of the body
including the belly especially during pregnancy, shoved
down the floor, pushed down the stairs, banged by the
head against the wall, thrown hard objects at, poured
boiling water over; stabbed with a knife; burned flesh
with cigarettes, hit with the butt of a gun, shot at.

13. "Sexual violence"
•refers to an act which is
sexual in nature,
committed against a
woman or her child. It
includes:
•rape, sexual harassment,
acts of lasciviousness,
treating a woman or her
child as a sex object,

14. •making demeaning and sexually suggestive
remarks, physically attacking the sexual parts of
the victim's body,
•forcing her/him to watch obscene publications and
indecent shows or forcing the woman or her child
to do indecent acts and/or make films thereof,

15. •forcing the wife and mistress/lover to live in the
conjugal home or sleep together in the same room
with the abuser;
•acts causing or attempting to cause the victim to
engage in any sexual activity by force, threat of
force, physical or other harm or threat of physical
or other harm or coercion;
•Prostituting the woman or child

16. "Psychological violence"
•refers to acts or omissions
causing or likely to cause
mental or emotional
suffering of the victim
such as
•intimidation, harassment,
stalking, damage to
property, public ridicule or
humiliation, repeated
verbal abuse and mental
infidelity.

17. •It includes causing or
allowing the victim to
witness the physical,
sexual or psychological
abuse of a member of
the family to which the
victim belongs,

18. •or to witness
pornography in any
form or to witness
abusive injury to pets
•or to unlawful or
unwanted deprivation
of the right to custody
and/or visitation of
common children.

19. •"Economic abuse" refers to acts that make or
attempt to make a woman financially dependent
which includes:
•withdrawal of financial support or preventing the
victim from engaging in any legitimate profession,
occupation, business or activity (exceptions)

20. •Deprivation or threat of deprivation of financial
resources and the right to the use and enjoyment
of the conjugal, community or property owned in
common.
•Destroying household property
•Controlling the victim’s own money or properties
or solely controlling the conjugal money or
properties.

21. Harmful Effects of Violence on Women
•Lack of self-worth
•Mental health problems
•Pain and injuries
•Sexual health problems:
Miscarriage
STD/HIV/AIDS, painful sex
•Homicide/suicide

22. Effects of Violence on the Community
•Violence continues into new generations
•Continued false belief that men are
better than women
•Everyone’s quality of life suffers when
they take less part in community life

23. WHY MEN BATTER
●Men who abuse generally share
some common characteristics. They
tend to be jealous, possessive and
easily angered.
●Alcohol and Drugs
●Hold a view of women as inferior
●WHY WOMEN STAY
●Fear:for themselves, for their
children, fear that they cannot
support themselves
●Battered wife syndrome

24. Myths of Gender Violence Against Women
1.It is just a momentary loss of temper.
2.A man can do whatever he wants with his
wife and children.
3.Battered women ask for it. Otherwise, why
wouldn’t they leave their partners?
4.Women provoke the violence from their
partners.

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