Guide shows how to end violence against women
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Hürriyet Daily News
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Haziran 10, 2009 00:00
VIENNA - Several good practices to help eliminate gender-based violence are documented in a guide published by the OSCE. The guide also highlights ways of preventing violence against women and girls, protecting victims and prosecuting offenders. Ending violence against women requires changing cultural concepts and deep rooted attitudes
A compilation of good practices for combating violence against women was issued Monday by the Organization of Security and Co-operation in Europe, or OSCE, Secretariat's gender section.
The publication, "Bringing Security Home: Combating Violence against Women in the OSCE Region," documents more than 95 good practices to help eliminate gender-based violence and highlights their impact in preventing violence against women, protecting victims and prosecuting offenders.
"Ending violence requires changing cultural concepts and deep-rooted attitudes and practices that discriminate against women and girls. We must ensure that all those who respond to violence against women have the capacity to provide comprehensive, effective and integrated responses," said Minister Counselor Dionyssios Kyvetos, representing the Greek OSCE Chairmanship at the symposium.
High level attendance
The event brought together more than 90 delegates, international experts and OSCE gender focal points to discuss effective ways to address gender-based violence. Despite decades of work to eradicate violence against women, the crime persists in alarming proportions and knowledge of effective strategies and approaches is poorly documented and not widely disseminated.
"The OSCE is both a rich reservoir of good practices and an excellent vector for disseminating knowledge about these effective approaches among its participating states," said OSCE Secretary-General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut. Jamila Seftaoui, the OSCE's senior adviser on gender issues, added: "Combating violence against women requires strong political will, concerted effort and sufficient resources but also innovation, good ideas and effective strategies to achieve better results on the ground."
Key speakers at the symposium included high-level policymakers such as Elisabeth Rehn, Finnish minister of state; Yakin Ertürk, UN special rapporteur on violence against women.
The publication, "Bringing Security Home: Combating Violence against Women in the OSCE Region," documents more than 95 good practices to help eliminate gender-based violence and highlights their impact in preventing violence against women, protecting victims and prosecuting offenders.
"Ending violence requires changing cultural concepts and deep-rooted attitudes and practices that discriminate against women and girls. We must ensure that all those who respond to violence against women have the capacity to provide comprehensive, effective and integrated responses," said Minister Counselor Dionyssios Kyvetos, representing the Greek OSCE Chairmanship at the symposium.
High level attendance
The event brought together more than 90 delegates, international experts and OSCE gender focal points to discuss effective ways to address gender-based violence. Despite decades of work to eradicate violence against women, the crime persists in alarming proportions and knowledge of effective strategies and approaches is poorly documented and not widely disseminated.
"The OSCE is both a rich reservoir of good practices and an excellent vector for disseminating knowledge about these effective approaches among its participating states," said OSCE Secretary-General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut. Jamila Seftaoui, the OSCE's senior adviser on gender issues, added: "Combating violence against women requires strong political will, concerted effort and sufficient resources but also innovation, good ideas and effective strategies to achieve better results on the ground."
Key speakers at the symposium included high-level policymakers such as Elisabeth Rehn, Finnish minister of state; Yakin Ertürk, UN special rapporteur on violence against women.