PROTECTING WOMEN FROM VIOLENCE

Some Strategies

The establishment of womens police station in Brazil. Initiation of special womens courts in South Africa, India and Bangladesh The establishment of residential shelters for battered women.

A government hotline to offer legal and medical advice and to help abused women in Italy. The movement to establish women only subway cars in Japan. The passing of the Violence against Women Act in the US. The Restraining Orders Act in Sweden

Some Strategies to Stop Violence Against Women and Ways of Protecting Victims of Gender Violence
   

Legislative Reform Education and Legal Counseling for Women Provision of Shelter SelfSelf-Defense Classes

Shutting down of the first and only battered womens shelter in Shanghai, China Disregarding marital rape as a crime in some countries.

Freedom from Persecution on the Basis of Gender: A Human Right

In 1993, Canada led the world in explicitly recognizing gender-based persecution as gendera legitimate reason for seeking asylum as a refugee.

In cases where the state makes no effort to protect a severely battered woman, or stop or punish a violent partner, and where no protection can be obtained from her own country she is, in essence, fleeing for her life. - Nurjehan Mawani

Tasmila Nasrin

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women or CEDAW

1997 by approving the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women or CEDAW, the UN recognized that violators of womens rights are violators of human rights.