scholarly journals Gendered violence in natural disasters: Learning from New Orleans, Haiti and Christchurch

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqui True
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Humanitarian Assistance ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Social Work Theory ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Indirect Impacts

Why are women so vulnerable to violence and death as a result of disaster compared with men? This article investigates how global environmental forces in the form of natural disasters from floods, droughts and famines to earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes affect women and men differently. Disasters are known to have direct and indirect impacts on gender-based violence particularly against women and girls, revealing a pattern of heightened violence and vulnerability in their aftermath. These gendered impacts are directly relevant to social work theory, practice and advocacy, which seek to promote social wellbeing and to prevent violence in homes and communities during and in the aftermath of disasters. The article argues that women’s unequal economic and social status relative to men before a disaster strikes determines the extent of their vulnerability to violence during and after a crisis. If gender-based violence and women’s particular needs are not addressed in disaster preparedness, disaster recovery plans and humanitarian assistance, then women and girls’ vulnerability will increase. The article offers some lessons based on primary research of responses to the 2010-2011 Christchurch earthquakes against the backdrop of what we know about the responses to an earthquake of similar magnitude in Haiti in 2009. It draws implications from this research for social work theory, practice and advocacy, highlighting the importance of ensuring that future disaster planning and decision making is gender-sensitive.

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.

Policies and Social Work Against Women Violence

2021 ◽  
pp. 442-462
Author(s):  
Keshav Sinha ◽  
Roma Kumari ◽  
Puja Kumari ◽  
Saria Parween ◽  
Karan Pratap Singh
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
The World ◽  
Individual Woman ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Women Violence

Women violence is a widespread problem that affects millions of women and girls across the world. The gender-based violence that threatens the well-being, dignity, and rights of women extends across social, cultural, economic, and regional boundaries. Women in all countries, irrespective of status, class, age, caste, or religion, experience violence once in a lifetime. However, specific groups of women suffering from various forms of discrimination, such as women with disabilities, migrant women, and lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women, are particularly vulnerable to violence. In this chapter, the author presents brief knowledge about the different type of violence against the women and also describe laws, policies, and social work which is used for the safety of the women. The theoretical framework is used to describe the remedies against violence and also help to provide love, safety, security, and shelter for every individual woman.

Conceptualizing Disaster Preparedness Interventions and Research: What Does Literature Have to Do With It?

2021 ◽  
pp. 104438942097811
Author(s):  
Chathapuram Ramanathan ◽  
William Crawley
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Effective Intervention

Natural disasters are frequent, widespread, and derail the lives of large percentages of the population. Social work professionals are among those suitable for intervening in natural disasters as they assist individuals, families, and communities. To understand the knowledge in the areas of disaster preparedness—the authors investigated the literature by reviewing 10 major social work journals—a conceptual model of disaster preparedness was developed for effective intervention and research. While specific needs vary for individuals, communities, and cultures, there are universal aspects central to human existence.

scholarly journals Variables associated with a higher awareness of gender-based violence by students of the health sciences and social work

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Berbegal-Bolsas ◽  
Ángel Gasch-Gallén ◽  
Bárbara Oliván-Blázquez ◽  
M. Antonia Sánchez Calavera ◽  
Paula García-Arcega ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Based

scholarly journals Social work with women from agricultural locations, which would brought: general principles and questions for professional preparation

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 175-190
Author(s):  
Оксана Кравченко
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Women Victims ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Policy ◽  
Gender Based

An article devoted to the issue of social work with women from rural areas that were violent, as well as coverage of approaches to training specialists providing social services to this category of population. It is established that gender policy is based not only on international normative legal acts ratified by Ukraine, but also regulated by national legal acts on equality between women and men. An important area of gender policy is the provision of equal rights and opportunities for women from rural areas, including the realization of their human rights. At the same time, women in rural areas are more vulnerable to gender-based violence than women living in cities that require a specially designed program for their social and psychological rehabilitation. As a result of the clarification of the content and focus of social work with women, the study of the regional experience of social services with women, the disclosure of the specifics of the training of future social workers to work with this category of citizens, recommendations for improving the quality of social services for women victims of domestic violence have been developed.

scholarly journals Opinion Review of Socioeconomic Impact of COVID-2019 on Women's Health

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victory U. Salami ◽  
Stanley I. R. Okoduwa ◽  
Aimee O. Chris ◽  
Susannah I. Ayilara ◽  
Ugochi J. Okoduwa
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Maternal Complications ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Clinical Procedures ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Gender Based

The global battle to survive the onslaughts of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) started in December 2019 and continues today. Women and girls have borne the brunt of the hardship resulting from the health crises. This paper examined the effects of COVID-19 on women. Socioeconomic factors resulting from the pandemic, especially in relation to women's health, were discussed after studying published articles. They include gender specificity and COVID-19, the economic toll of COVID-19 on women, pregnancy and COVID-19, gender-based violence due to COVID-19, and health-care impacts of COVID-19. Making up the majority in the healthcare workforce, women were at higher risk of infection with COVID-19 due to their exposure as caregivers to infected patients. The pandemic took its toll on them as part of the greater population in the informal sector of the economy due to the lockdown directive, as many experienced severe monetary shortages and job losses. Pregnant women infected with COVID-19 were prone to severe diseases, maternal complications, and death due to their weakened immunity and exposure during clinical procedures. Gender-based violence was observed to have increased across the globe for women. The results of this review strongly indicate that women are disproportionately affected by the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis. This review will help health-care professionals and policymakers arrive at properly-thought-through decisions to better manage health crises. Governments and all key players should address the challenge by devising effective policies with a gendered view.

scholarly journals THE SOLVING OF PREVENTION AND OPPOSITION PROBLEM OF GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL WORK

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-24
Author(s):  
Olha Hurenko ◽  
Nataliia Matseiko
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Gender Role Attitudes ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Gender System ◽  
Egalitarian Attitudes

The concept of «gender-based violence» essence, which recognized as an extreme manifestation of the individual rights and freedoms violation and as reproduction mechanism of society gender system, which based on uneven powerful relationships between women and men in the society and characterized by the egalitarian attitudes absence has been revealed in the article. Manifestation features of the phenomena and their varieties have been outlined. The fundamental difference between the concepts «gender-based violence», «domestic violence» has been defined. The Ukraine state social politics of gender-based violence prevention and opposition based on international and national legal framework has been analyzed. The current information about trends of this negative phenomenon spread within the country, including considering the consequences of the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine has been listed.  Problems and prospects of the struggle with gender-based violence in Ukraine in the context of social work have been defined. And priority among which are improvement of reaction measures at the stages of violence facts detection and further support to the victim or the offender; setting-up systematic correctional work with perpetrators of violence or with perpetrators belonging to a risk group for its commission, the interdepartmental interaction of subjects of prevention and opposition this phenomenon; activating the system of preventive influences to the younger generation's consciousness and society in general to the direction of tolerance, mutual respect, opposit to gender role attitudes and stereotypes.

scholarly journals A Feminist Future for the Pacific

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Cliffe
Keyword(s):  
Sexual And Gender Minorities ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Gender Minorities ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
Essential Services ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

The COVID–19 pandemic continues to devastate the lives and wellbeing of millions of people around the world; women and girls, people with disabilities, youth, older people, and sexual and gender minorities are most at risk of ‘being left behind’. While confirmed cases of COVID–19 are low in the Pacific compared with other regions, the threat of the virus remains and the wider social and economic impacts are already evident. Pacific Island countries grappling with pervasive inequality, sustainable development challenges and climate change now must consider their response to the COVID–19 pandemic. This paper envisions an inclusive and transformative feminist response focused on four key outcomes: preserving access to healthcare and essential services; promoting women’s economic empowerment; protecting women and girls from gender–based violence; and supporting vulnerable and marginalised groups to express their voice and claim their rights amid the pandemic.

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