From Legislation to Everyday Practices in Guatemala's Violence against Women Courts

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Erin Beck ◽  
Lynn Stephen
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Face ◽  
Case Files ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Abstract We explore how formal mandates associated with Guatemala's 2008 ‘Law against Femicide and Other Forms of Violence against Women’ and with specialised violence against women (VAW) courts have encountered significant challenges due to state-imposed constraints. Drawing on courtroom observations, analyses of case files, and interviews, we find that while formal mandates incorporated feminist understandings of violence against women, which were often internalised among court officials, in daily practice specialised courts reproduced tendencies to depict violence as interpersonal, fragment people's experiences and enact narrow forms of justice that do not incorporate the full intent of the 2008 VAW Law and institutions intended to support it. This case study thus illuminates how and why legal solutions alone are not sufficient to reduce gender-based violence and feminicide, particularly in the face of uneven and openly hostile challenges posed by governments.

GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AMONGST WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES: A CASE STUDY OF MWENEZI DISTRICT, ZIMBABWE

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tafadzwa Rugoho ◽  
France Maphosa
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Community Perceptions ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Women With Disabilities ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Disabled Women ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Impact

This article is based on a study of gender-based violence against women with disabilities. The study sought to examine the factors that make such women vulnerable, to investigate the community’s responses to gender-based violence against women with disabilities, and to determine the impact of gender-based violence on the wellbeing and health of women with disabilities. The study adopted a qualitative research design so as to arrive at an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon under study. The study sample consisted of 48 disabled women living in marital or common law unions, selected using purposive sampling. Of the 48 women in the sample, 16 were visually impaired while the remaining 32 had other physical disabilities. Focus group discussions were used for data collection. The data were analysed using the thematic approach. The finding was that women with disabilities also experience gender-based violence. The study makes recommendations whose thrust is to change community perceptions on disability as the only guarantee towards eradicating gender-based violence against women with disabilities.

Debates and Controversies

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-72
Author(s):  
Mona Lena Krook
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Academic Engagement ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Short Summary ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Chapter 7 applies a more critical, comparative lens to the developments discussed in previous chapters. It outlines a series of debates and controversies emerging from practitioner work, which have been subject at times to tense academic engagement, including disputes over terminology; violence against women or gender-based violence as the defining feature of this phenomenon; differing typologies and classifications of specific forms of violence; views on targets and perpetrators of violence; the presence of intersecting forms of violence based on race, class, age, and other identities; and contextual factors and their role in shaping incidents of violence. The chapter stakes out the position of this book in relation to each of these debates, providing a short summary of the ideas subsequently elaborated at length in the next part of the book.

scholarly journals Covid-19, Harassment and Social Media: A Study of Gender-Based Violence Facilitated by Technology During the Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 319
Author(s):  
Mochamad Iqbal Jatmiko ◽  
Muh. Syukron ◽  
Yesi Mekarsari
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Forms Of Violence ◽  
Dangerous Behaviors

The transition of all individual activities in the home gives rise to two forms of violence against women, such as domestic violence and online sexual violence. Specifically, this article argues that independent quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the orientation of community sexual violence to technology-facilitated sexual abuse. Social media networks become a trajectory of changes in sexual violence that was initially physical into online sexual violence. This research uses a qualitative method with a case study approach to understanding the phenomenon of online sexual violence. The data presented here refer to the experiences of four survivors with different backgrounds and stories. The results show that technology has facilitated digital abuse, which impacts a series of dangerous behaviors experienced in social media. Women, as part of social media users, are very vulnerable to experiencing online sexual violence from personal relationships, boyfriend, friendship, and relatives. Space and time in the real world folded in such a way as to provide opportunities for the reality of virtual networks to become a realm of gender-based violence. At the same time, the neutrality of social media then turns into a means of supporting gender inequality

scholarly journals Addressing “Gender” in Gender Based Violence: A Qualitative Study of Gender Transformative Approach among Tribal’s in Jharkhand

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-73
Author(s):  
Vaibhav Pandey Vipul ◽  
◽  
Singh SK ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Male Violence ◽  
The Common ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Transformative Approach

This is a case study of gender based violence among the different area of Jharkhand addressing the gender. It elaborates the common phenomenon of male violence and women empowerment in all societies and all social groups and classes. The experiences from field study are juxtaposed with a growing number of innovative violence against women program targeting men in the role of perpetuators.

scholarly journals INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE: ASSIMILATION, INTERRUPTED: TRANSFORMING DISCOURSES OF CULTURE- AND HONOUR-BASED VIOLENCE IN CANADA

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Mandeep Kaur Mucina ◽  
Amina Jamal
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Forms Of Violence

This special issue about race, honour, culture, and violence against women in South Asian Canadian communities is proffered as an entry point to a wider, multilayered discussion about race, culture, gender, and violence. It hopes to intensify a debate on gendered violence that could tie in with analysis and commentary on individual killings in family-related sites, murders of racialized women and girls in public sites, and other forms of violence against women and girls in society. We encourage readers to consider how to understand the landscape that South Asian Canadian women and girls are confronting, while also asking critical questions about the wider settler colonial system in which we all participate as we fight gender-based violence.

scholarly journals The adequacy of Sudanese legislation to protect women from gender-based violence: مدى كفاية التشريعات السودانية لحماية المرأة من العنف المؤسس على النّوع

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Aziz Adam Abdullah Babeker
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Is Success ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Women in many societies are facing unjustified violence. They do not enjoy their full legal rights because of the prevalence of certain harmful habits that establish this kind of violence or because of lack of legislation to regulate the issue. This paper deals with gender based violence, exploring The Sudanese legislations that framed the protection from violence in order to verify the adequacy of these legislations to protect women from this phenomenon. The research problem is focused on the adequacy of protection provided by Sudanese legislation for women to stop the violence against them which based on gender. The researcher used the descriptive approach to study the relevant texts of the Sudanese constitution and laws, to verify the standard of protection provided for women from violence based on gender. This paper concluded to find that, the Sudanese legislation widely framed protection of women from the violence against them. As these legislations covered many aspects of gender based violence; making it suitable to combat this phenomenon if applied in a proper way. But this is success of the Sudanese legislation in its quest to protect women from violence, does not necessarily means the practical application is safe. The discussion here is about the adequacy of the legislation in the single way. In spite of this good frame working to combat gender-based violence; the absence of a specific law to combat this phenomenon in Sudan led to the negligence of some forms of violence against women. In order to strengthen the protection of women from violence, and to complete the legislative shortages in some ways that Sudanese laws did not put a clear cut law about; the paper recommended to enact a special law to combat violence against women. Moreover, Sudanese government and its institutions should educate people of the dangers of harmful habits that contradict the law, religion that represent unjustified violence against women.

The Impact of Adjacent Laws on Implementing Violence Against Women Laws: Legal Violence in the Lives of Costa Rican Women

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 432-459
Author(s):  
Erin Adamson ◽  
Cecilia Menjívar ◽  
Shannon Drysdale Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Social Violence ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Legal Violence ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Implementation Gaps ◽  
Forms Of Violence ◽  
The Impact

Most scholarship addressing implementation gaps of violence against women (VAW) laws focuses on countries with high levels of violence in the lives of women—accompanied by weak policing and judicial responses. These studies tend to argue that the most egregious forms of political or social violence explain this gap. However, there has been little attention to countries with lower levels of gender-based violence and relatively responsive state institutions. We analyze the application of VAW laws in Costa Rica, with a focus on the impact of adjacent laws, or laws that are seemingly unrelated to VAW laws but are applied in tandem with and often in conflict with VAW laws. Based on a decade of fieldwork in Costa Rica, we argue that adjacent laws on land, labor, and immigration can be leveraged in ways that undermine the interpretation and implementation of VAW laws. These failures constitute legal violence: the normalized but cumulatively injurious effects of laws that can result in various forms of violence. While legal violence causes implementation gaps in almost every country, our case study reveals that the underlying sociolegal system upon which these laws rest contributes to a significant gap between VAW laws and practice.

General Recommendation No. 35 on Gender-Based Violence against Women, Updating General Recommendation No. 19

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-305 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Family ◽  
General Recommendation ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Private Corporations ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Gender-based violence against women occurs in all spaces and spheres of human interaction, whether public or private, including in the contexts of the family, the community, public spaces, the workplace, leisure, politics, sport, health services and educational settings, and the redefinition of public and private through technology-mediated environments, such as contemporary forms of violence occurring online and in other digital environments. In all those settings, gender-based violence against women can result from acts or omissions of State or non-State actors, acting territorially or extraterritorially, including extraterritorial military actions of States, individually or as members of international or intergovernmental organizations or coalitions, or extraterritorial operations of private corporations. General recommendation No. 35 provides States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women with further guidance aimed at accelerating the elimination of gender-based violence against women.

Legal and Institutional Functionality in the Protection of Women – Victims of Domestic Violence in the Republic of Macedonia – Present Situation and Future Perspectives

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Zorica Saltirovska Professor ◽  
Sunchica Dimitrijoska Professor
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Women Victims ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
National Level ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Republic Of Macedonia ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Gender Based

Gender-based violence is a form of discrimination that prevents women from enjoying the rights and liberties on an equal level with men. Inevitably, domestic violence shows the same trend of victimizing women to such a degree that the term “domestic violence” is increasingly becoming synonymous with “violence against women”. The Istanbul Convention defines domestic violence as "gender-based violence against women", or in other words "violence that is directed against a woman because she is a woman or that affects women disproportionately." The situation is similar in the Republic of Macedonia, where women are predominantly victims of domestic violence. However, the Macedonian legal framework does not define domestic violence as gender-based violence, and thus it does not define it as a specific form of discrimination against women. The national legislation stipulates that victims are to be protected in both a criminal and a civil procedure, and the Law on Prevention and Protection from Domestic Violence determines the actions of the institutions and civil organizations in the prevention of domestic violence and the protection of victims. The system for protection of victims of domestic violence closely supports the Law on Social Protection and the Law on Free Legal Aid, both of which include provisions on additional assistance for women victims of domestic violence. However, the existing legislation has multiple deficiencies and does not allow for a greater efficacy in implementing the prescribed measures for the protection of victims of domestic violence. For this reason, as well as due to the inconsistent implementation of legal solutions of this particular issue, the civil sector is constantly expressing their concern about the increasingly wider spread of domestic violence against women and about the protection capabilities at their disposal. The lack of recognition of all forms of gender-based violence, the trivial number of criminal sentences against persons who perform acts of domestic violence, the insufficient support offered to victims – including victim shelters, legal assistance, and counseling, and the lack of systematic databases on domestic violence cases on a national level, are a mere few of the many issues clearly pointing to the inevitable conclusion that the protection of women-victims of domestic violence is inadequate. Hence, the functionality and efficiency of both the existing legislation and the institutions in charge of protection and support of women – victims of domestic violence is being questioned, which is also the subject for analysis in this paper.

Evaluating government's communication strategy of the 16 Days of Activism campaign for No Violence Against Women and Children in South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 219-241
Author(s):  
Mutambuli J. Hadji
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Gender Based

This article aims to evaluate government's communication strategy and citizens' awareness of the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children campaign in Soshanguve, South Africa. The study applied the diffusion of innovation theory because of its ability to assess how communities receive communication about the campaign from various media. Survey method was used to collect data, which was analysed using descriptive statistics. It was found out that mass media and other communication channels were main sources of campaign messages, which help the community to know how to address gender-based violence issues. Notably, this study found that females were more likely to know about the campaign than males. This article recommends that this campaign should be visible throughout the year and there should be more campaigns targeting men, and school curriculum, which educate pupils about the social and economic consequences of GBV.

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