Addressing Gender-based Violence in the Latin American and Caribbean Region

Addressing Gender-based Violence in the Latin American and Caribbean Region
Author: Andrew R. Morrison
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2004
Genre: Women
ISBN:

The authors examine good practice approaches in justice, health, education, and multisectoral approaches. In each sector, they identify good practices for: (1) law and policies; (2) institutional reforms; (3) community-level interventions; and (4) individual behavior change strategies. The authors offer conclusions and recommendations for future work on gender-based violence: It is essential to focus on the prevention of GBV, not just on services for its survivors. Prevention is best achieved by empowering women and reducing gender disparities, and by changing norms and attitudes which foster violence. Interventions should employ a multisectoral approach and work at different levels--individual, community, institutional, and laws and policies. GBV may be common in the Latin America and the Caribbean region, but there are promising approaches available to begin working toward its elimination"--Abstract.

Addressing Gender-Based Violence in the Latin American and Caribbean Region

Addressing Gender-Based Violence in the Latin American and Caribbean Region
Author: Andrew Morrison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2016
Genre:
ISBN:

Morrison, Ellsberg, and Bott present an overview of gender-based violence (GBV) in Latin America, with special emphasis on good practice interventions to prevent GBV or offer services to its survivors or perpetrators. Intimate partner violence and sexual coercion are the most common forms of GBV, and these are the types of GBV that they analyze.GBV has serious consequences for women's health and well-being, ranging from fatal outcomes, such as homicide, suicide, and AIDS-related deaths, to nonfatal outcomes, such as physical injuries, chronic pain syndrome, gastrointestinal disorders, complications during pregnancy, miscarriage, and low birth-weight of children. GBV also poses significant costs for the economies of developing countries, including lower worker productivity and incomes, and lower rates of accumulation of human and social capital.The authors examine good practice approaches in justice, health, education, and multisectoral approaches. In each sector, they identify good practices for: (1) law and policies; (2) institutional reforms; (3) community-level interventions; and (4) individual behavior change strategies.The authors offer conclusions and recommendations for future work on gender-based violence:- It is essential to focus on the prevention of GBV, not just on services for its survivors.- Prevention is best achieved by empowering women and reducing gender disparities, and by changing norms and attitudes which foster violence.- Interventions should employ a multisectoral approach and work at different levels - individual, community, institutional, and laws and policies.GBV may be common in the Latin America and the Caribbean region, but there are promising approaches available to begin working toward its elimination.This paper - a product of the Poverty Sector Unit, Latin America and the Caribbean Region - is part of a larger effort in the region to address issues of violence and its impact on development.

Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean

Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Elizabeth Maier
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2010
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0813547288

"This is a very exciting collection that will fill an important gap in what has emerged in comparative studies of women and Latin American democracies. Maier and Lebon provide provocative overview essays, and the chapters trace a range of cases from Argentina and Brazil to Nicaragua and Venezuela, showing how institutions. leaders and culture all shape the opportunities and challenges women face."---Jane Jaquette, editor of Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America --

Understanding Gender-Based Violence

Understanding Gender-Based Violence
Author: Caroline Bradbury-Jones
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2021-02-17
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030650065

This edited book brings together the voices and insights of survivors, practitioners, educators and researchers working to prevent and minimise the harms of gender-based violence, with a specific focus on equipping health professionals and social workers to support victim-survivors. Practitioners can, and often do, play a critical role supporting victim-survivors of gender-based violence; however, this work has historically been carried out by those in specialist roles and there remains gaps and inconsistencies in education and training for qualifying and post-qualified professionals. This book makes a valuable contribution to addressing these gaps. It provides practitioners with a comprehensive resource on contemporary debates and research in the field of gender-based violence. To support readers’ learning, each chapter contains reflective exercises and draws clear links between research, theory and practice. The book is structured into four sections. The first section considers the ‘rise’ of gender-based violence in policy and practice, and questions to what extent this once marginalised perspective has become embedded in health and social work training and education. The second section of the book explores some of the expressions, contexts and implications of gender-based violence. Each chapter considers the role of health care professionals and social workers and invites the reader to reflect on their (potential) role in these areas. The third section of the collection focuses on one of the most common forms of gender-based violence that health and social work professionals are likely to encounter: physical, psychological, sexual and financial violence by an intimate partner, who may also be a parent. Finally, the fourth section showcases innovative responses to supporting victim-survivors and challenging systems that contribute to gender inequality. The intention of this book is to equip health care professionals and social workers with critical, practical and ethical resources to help them work with victim-survivors and, where possible, engage in transformative efforts to end the harms of gendered inequalities and violence.

Violence Against Women in Politics

Violence Against Women in Politics
Author: Mona Lena Krook
Publisher:
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2020
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 019008846X

Women have made significant inroads into political life in recent years, but in many parts of the world, their increased engagement has spurred attacks, intimidation, and harassment. This book provides the first comprehensive account of this phenomenon, exploring how women came to give these experiences a name: violence against women in politics. Tracing its global emergence as a concept, Mona Lena Krook draws on insights from multiple disciplines--political science, sociology, history, gender studies, economics, linguistics, psychology, and forensic science--to develop a more robust version of this concept to support ongoing activism and inform future scholarly work. Krook argues that violence against women in politics is not simply a gendered extension of existing definitions of political violence privileging physical aggressions against rivals. Rather, it is a distinct phenomenon involving a broad range of harms to attack and undermine women as political actors, taking physical, psychological, sexual, economic, and semiotic forms. Incorporating a wide range of country examples, she illustrates what this violence looks like in practice, catalogues emerging solutions around the world, and considers how to document this phenomenon more effectively. Highlighting its implications for democracy, human rights, and gender equality, the book asserts that addressing this issue requires ongoing dialogue and collaboration to ensure women's equal rights to participate--freely and safely--in political life around the globe.

Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and the Caribbean

Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and the Caribbean
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2012
Genre: Organized crime
ISBN:

This report is one of several studies conducted by UNODC on organized crime threats around the world. These studies describe what is known about the mechanics of contraband trafficking - the what, who, how, and how much of illicit flows - and discuss their potential impact on governance and development. Their primary role is diagnostic, but they also explore the implications of these findings for policy. Publisher's note.

Women at Work

Women at Work
Author: Claudia Piras
Publisher: IDB
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2004
Genre: Sex discrimination in employment
ISBN: 9781931003957

Gender, Globalization, and Health in a Latin American Context

Gender, Globalization, and Health in a Latin American Context
Author: J. Gideon
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2014-10-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137120274

Using a political economy of health, Gender, Globalization, and Health in a Latin American Context demonstrates how the development of health systems in Latin America was closely linked to men's participation in formal labor. This established an inherent male bias that continues to shape health services today. While economic liberalization has created new jobs that have been taken up mainly by women, these jobs fail to offer the same health entitlements. Author Jasmine Gideon explores the resultant tensions and gender inequalities, which have been further exacerbated in the context of health care commercialization.

Social Institutions and Gender Index SIGI 2020 Regional Report for Latin America and the Caribbean

Social Institutions and Gender Index SIGI 2020 Regional Report for Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2020-07-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9264844805

Gender equality and women’s empowerment can only be achieved if countries take action to tackle and eliminate discrimination in their legal frameworks, social norms and practices. The SIGI 2020 Regional Report for Latin America and the Caribbean provides new evidence-based analysis on the setbacks and progress in achieving gender equality between 2014 and 2019.