This brief will focus on different forms of violence against women in the United States, specifically on violence that has been politicized or is a product of politics. Focusing on domestic violence, rape, and the debate on abortion, this brief will give an overview of several of the many forms of violence women experience as well as providing information on violence women experience in the criminal justice system.
This chapter addresses various aspects of this emerging research area, exploring concepts, theories, and data related to the study of violence against women in politics. It occurs within the political sphere but specifically targets women. It is used to reinforce traditional social and political structures by aiming women leaders who challenge patriarchy and the prevailing social expectations and norms. In many societies, such practices are marginalized, naturalized, depoloticized and remained invisible. When female politicians are attacked for their political views alone, therefore, this is not a case of violence against women in politics. Ambiguity emerges, however, due to the fact that the means for attacking female politicians often relies on gendered scripts, focusing on women's bodies and their traditional social roles, primarily as mothers and wives, to deny or undercut women's competence in the political sphere. Symbolic and semiotic violence in politics can be effective in sustaining women's oppression because it is subtle, euphemized, invisible. Even if women recognize these acts as exercises of power, they still do not name it as violence, even in societies with greater levels of gender equality. The concept of semiotic violence refers to the use of language, images and symbols as a means in purpose to marginalize and disqualify women as political actors. Often normalized, these dynamics serve to maintain gender hierarchies, undermining democracy and eroding the possibilities for women's political empowerment.
Married Men the forgotten gender in India. There are NCRB statistics of more than 50,000 married men committing suicide every year. There are news reports of men's suicide due to cruelty & harassment from their wives. There are news reports of men being murdered in large numbers. Yet, there is no Ministry for men, there are no laws for men and his family. All because the Men who are in power, forget their own gender and are busy appeasing women under the influence of Women originations for Vote Bank or other vested interests. Unless these Women organizations along with WCD/NCW who promote LEGAL TERRORISM in the name of women empowerment are made responsible for these crimes, and are stopped from defending these criminals and murderers, nothing will change. Government should take stand and amend all age old and gender biased laws to stop this genocide of men. Indian men die in large numbers due to various reasons: #1. If man stay in a troubled marriage he is harassed, murdered or forced to commits suicide due to the cruelty by the wife. The same can be seen from numerous news reports included in article above. #2. If the man decides to get out the bitter marriage, the man is subject to a barrage of criminal cases under section 498a IPC, Dowry harassment, Domestic violence with no evidence along with lifetime slavery using section 125, HMA 24 maintenance laws even if women is highly educated, working or capable to maintain herself. #3. Not only man is harassed and killed by wife but other women also can file False case of Rape, Outraging modesty, Sexual harassment, POCSO, #MeToo etc; even she has not seen or met accused man. In these cases, burden of proof, proving himself innocent on men. But, for women one word of molestation is enough to file any of above cases. Indian law and Judiciary term every word of a women as Gospel of truth, because there is no accountability on judiciary or Police or law to punish women for filing false cases. The above cruelty against men happens only because of Women ministry / ...
In the early 90s, the Violence in the cases of dowry was the crux, and later it gave vent to the other sort of violence against women as domestic violence and wife battering as per its incessant giant like growing form. In the last two decades, domestic violence has captured the attention of all sorts of social and judicial authorities. It is crucial to gauge the structure of violence against women in India through the generic pattern, which remains more or less similar across the world. The narrative of victimhood is vital to get the proper solution of all sorts of violent acts against women in society. In Hyderabad, India has women police for such cases, and there are many statistics that we need to understand in the context of this matter of violence against women. The active collaboration between the NGOs and the government authorities is indispensable to control such criminal arenas. Family and friends can do work at a deeper level to eradicate this problem to make the society free from the clutches of domestic violence or wife battering. The discrimination of caste, race, or between man and women can be traced in the religious scriptures.
Violence Against Women and Health The problem of Violence Against Women (VAW) continues to plague our society causing appalling damage to the lives of thousands of women and children. The immense negative repercussions of being exposed to physical, sexual, or psychological abuse have been well documented worldwide, and are well accepted by both professionals working in this field and society at large. Significant government funding has been directed to this area in order to provide support to women who experience abuse. However, rates of violence remain unacceptably high and services are still inadequate given the magnitude and the complexity of the problem. Click here to download PDF 478kb
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Violence against women is a public crime and human rights violation that has negative social, economic, and health consequences for women and their communities. Violence against women must be studied in a specific context in order to understand how social and cultural norms affect the issue. Based on face-to-face semi-structured interviews with UN Women, relevant nongovernmental organizations, academics, and government services for gender- based violence victims, this study looked into the current legislation, actions and policies being carried out by different actors to address violence against women in the Philippines. The data was analyzed using a combination of the Public Health Model created by the Center for Communicable Diseases, and the Integrated Ecological Model by Lori Heise. This study found that violence against women is a widespread issue in the Philippines. However, the lack of a central data bank to consolidate the data from various government services makes the existing data unreliable. Moreover, despite the existence of laws and services to address the issue, government services are inadequate and merely responsive rather than preventive. Nongovernment organizations and academics play a complementary role where the government services fall short. This study also found various factors about the Philippine culture that serve as risk factors, protective factors, and factors that affect reporting behavior. By identifying these different factors, this study opens the door for two main possibilities: negative cultural factors that pose a risk or affect reporting behavior can be turned around to become protective factors instead; and the existing positive aspects of the culture that serve as protective factors must be taken advantage of by making them widespread. ; M-DS
Preventing violence against public servants From safety science, we have learned that in light of increasing demands and system complexity, we must adapt our approach to safety. We have to include new practices to look for what goes right, focus on frequent events, remain sensitive to the possibility of failure, to be thorough as well as efficient, and to view an investment in safety as an investment in productivity. But most people still think of safety as the absence of accidents and incidents (or as an acceptable level of risk). In this perspective, which is termed Safety-I, safety is defined as a state where as few things as possible go wrong. According to Safety-I, things go wrong due to technical, human and organizational causes – failures and malfunctions. Humans are viewed predominantly as a liability or hazard. The safety management principle is to respond when something happens or is categorized as an unacceptable risk. Accordingly, the purpose of accident investigation is to identify the causes and contributory factors of adverse outcomes, while risk assessment aims to determine their likelihood. Both approaches then try to eliminate causes or improve barriers, or both. However, the Safety-I view does not explain why human performance practically always goes right. The reason that things go right is not people behave as they are told to, but that people can adjust their work so that it matches the conditions. As systems continue to develop, these adjustments become increasingly important for successful performance. The challenge for safety improvement is to understand these adjustments, beginning by understanding how performance usually goes right. Despite the obvious importance of things going right, safety management has so far paid relatively little attention to this view – Safety-II. ; Violence and Threat Risk Assessment in government agencies
Preventing violence against public servants From safety science, we have learned that in light of increasing demands and system complexity, we must adapt our approach to safety. We have to include new practices to look for what goes right, focus on frequent events, remain sensitive to the possibility of failure, to be thorough as well as efficient, and to view an investment in safety as an investment in productivity. But most people still think of safety as the absence of accidents and incidents (or as an acceptable level of risk). In this perspective, which is termed Safety-I, safety is defined as a state where as few things as possible go wrong. According to Safety-I, things go wrong due to technical, human and organizational causes – failures and malfunctions. Humans are viewed predominantly as a liability or hazard. The safety management principle is to respond when something happens or is categorized as an unacceptable risk. Accordingly, the purpose of accident investigation is to identify the causes and contributory factors of adverse outcomes, while risk assessment aims to determine their likelihood. Both approaches then try to eliminate causes or improve barriers, or both. However, the Safety-I view does not explain why human performance practically always goes right. The reason that things go right is not people behave as they are told to, but that people can adjust their work so that it matches the conditions. As systems continue to develop, these adjustments become increasingly important for successful performance. The challenge for safety improvement is to understand these adjustments, beginning by understanding how performance usually goes right. Despite the obvious importance of things going right, safety management has so far paid relatively little attention to this view – Safety-II. ; QC 20160810 ; Violence and Threat Risk Assessment in government agencies
A major accomplishment of women's rights scholars and activists has been to make violence against women (VAW) visible. After decades of struggle, in a dramatic turn, VAW has become a highly politicized topic since the mid 1990's, and even more so after 9/11. An unfortunate side-effect of the increased recognition of harm done to women is that the issue of VAW is sometimes co-opted by the state and used in service of their political projects. In this paper I present the political co-optation of VAW as one of the pressing challenges facing scholars who conduct research on the problem of VAW. The issues detailed here have been debated in the transnational feminist theory literature and the feminist international relations (IR) literature for the last two decades. Yet, the issues detailed in this paper rarely appear in mainstream VAW research. This paper is an effort to encourage cross-fertilization between these fields and to outline key issues of engagement regarding the issue of the politicization of VAW. After detailing the problem of political co-optation I then go on to offer ideas about how to proceed as scholars and activists in a political climate where the issue of VAW is routinely misused as a tool by the state to serve political ends.
This study aimed to conduct an integrative review of scientific knowledge produced in Brazil between 2013 and 2017, emphasizing the descriptors violence and the elderly. The scientific productions were selected in the SciELO database with crossings of the descriptors used in the title of the articles, available online in full form, with the period limitation from 2014 to 2018, in Brazil collections and Portuguese language. The search in the database generated 26 articles, and ten of them were chosen for the final analysis after applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The present integrative review showed that the central violence suffered was psychological, along with physical violence, with the elderly being the main victims. The findings related to violence against the elderly and associated factors reveal a scenario that is most prevalent in the home, an environment where the belief of a welcoming, loving and protective nature of external violence is deposited. In contrast, the intrafamilial relationship emerges concomitantly as a generator of conflicts that expose the elderly to the risk of violence of a character veiled, caused by the constituents themselves, which requires high vigilance and notification. Violence is a social challenge. We must prioritize research, work, and discuss the abuse of older people in political circles and understand the best way to prevent and help implement the necessary measures.
Three great bodies of thought have influenced western society's views and treatment of women: Judeo-Christian religious ideas, Greek philosophy and the Common Law legal code. All three traditions have, by and large, assumed patriarchy as natural – that is male domination stemming from the view of male superiority. As part of the culture perpetuated by these ideologies, violence towards women was seen as a natural expression of male dominance. This paper contains three main themes. The first establishes patriarchy as an early pattern of military societies and the subsequent emergence of the Judeo-Christian, Greek and legal cultural paradigm as ideological justification. The second provides evidence as to how the above attitudes were interwoven in European and American values. The third theme analyzes the new 18th century cultural paradigm of liberalism which rejected male dominance, lessened the manifestation of patriarchy, without removing its cultural memory, thereby, allowing violence towards women to remain.
Gender-based violence (GBV) is one of the most prevalent and destructive problems that women and girls face in the world, constraining their full participation in social, economic, and political life, and with negative repercussions for societies as a whole. The Asia Foundation pursues a holistic approach to ending violence against women and girls (VAWG) through evidence-based strategies that are rooted in decades of experience across Asia and the Pacific.
Today, in countries with democratic sivil society around the world, the creation of equal opportunities for men and women to ensure their material and spiritual well-being is one of the main priorities of governments. Ensuring gender equality, raising the status of women in society, eliminating all forms of violence and abuse against women is one of the most pressing problems today.This article provides a definition of the concepts of violence and pressure based on the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and explains the types of violence against women. In addition, gender issues are analyzed today based on data from Oxfam International. Conclusions and recommendations are given for improving the status of women in modern society and preventing violence.
Organized crime uses political violence to influence politics in a wide set of countries. This paper exploits a novel dataset of attacks directed towards Italian local politicians to study how (and why) criminal organizations use violence against them. We test two competing theories to predict the use of violence i) before elections, to affect the electoral outcome and ii) after elections, to influence politicians from the beginning of their term. We provide causal evidence in favor of the latter hypothesis. The probability of being a target of violence increases in the weeks right after an election in areas with a high presence of organized crime, especially when elections result in a change of local government.
