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What is violence against women?

Learn more about gender-based violence, and how the 台灣uu直播 is working with survivors.

 

Today, 25 November, is the . It鈥檚 a day to raise awareness of gender-based violence, helping to reduce stigma about the subject and showing solidarity with survivors.  

Learn about gender-based violence

Violence against women takes different forms and can be complex. It can include sexual violence, domestic violence, human trafficking (like slavery and sexual exploitation), harmful practices like forced and early marriage, early pregnancy, female genital mutilation (FGM), so-called 鈥榟onour鈥 based violence and violence from an intimate partner.  
 
There is often a fear of stigmatisation, and a fear of rejection and retaliation by a woman or girl鈥檚 family and community, if she reports what has happened to her.  

 throughout the world will experience physical and/or sexual violence by a partner, or sexual violence from a non-partner.  

These things can happen to all women, but some groups of women are more at risk. These include:  

  • Women on the move, at all stages of their journey. This includes before fleeing their home country, during the journey and in the camps or places people might stay, including here in the UK  
  • women in conflict - sexual violence including using rape as a weapon of war and sexual slavery, or post-conflict situations and other emergencies including natural disasters and epidemics

Sadly, violence against women and girls has got worse during the Covid-19 pandemic, including domestic violence and other forms of gender-based violence, like early marriage, survival sex and sexual exploitation (negative coping mechanisms adopted by families and women and girls to cope with loss of livelihoods and the economic crisis caused by the pandemic.  

 

ONE IN THREE WOMEN WILL EXPERIENCE PHYSICAL AND/OR SEXUAL VIOLENCE.

 

What is the 台灣uu直播 doing to help survivors of gender-based violence?

We support鈥痵urvivors鈥痓y providing practical and emotional support (like鈥痯sychosocial support) or providing safe spaces and dignity鈥痥its.

We provide cash and voucher assistance to survivors of gender-based violence鈥痶o help them access the services they need and鈥痯rovide鈥痺ork and job opportunities to鈥痟elp their recovery and reintegration鈥痠n their community.

We work with women and girls at risk of gender-based violence鈥痶o support their economic鈥痑utonomy and access to food, cash and job opportunities鈥痶o mitigate that risk of violence taking place.

We鈥痑lso work鈥痺ith communities鈥痠ncluding women鈥檚 groups, men and boys and community leaders鈥痶o help reduce stigma鈥痑nd prevent violence against women and girls.

We advocate on behalf of women in the UK asylum system. Our work supports women and girls both in the UK and overseas including in Sudan, Nigeria, Niger, Central African Republic, Sierra Leone, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Libya and in the UK. 

How are we helping in Eastern Sudan?

In Eastern Sudan we are supporting women and girls on the move in partnership with the Danish Red Cross and Sudanese Red Crescent Society. Together with generous support from funds raised by players of  we are:

  • providing child-friendly spaces and safe places for women and girls in reception centres and refugee camps to identify and safely refer people who need support
  • providing psychosocial support
  • providing accommodation and basic needs to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence and human trafficking in a safe house where they can learn skills, seek advice, recuperate and heal from their trauma
  • working closely with local communities to help reduce stigma about trafficking and sexual and gender-based violence and mitigate these risks, which are sensitive topics in Sudan. 

Read more about the safe house in Eastern Sudan and meet the women of the Sudanese Red Crescent.

 

How are we helping in the UK?

We are supporting asylum-seeking women and girls by: 

  • Delivering training on sexual and gender-based violence  
  • developing guidance for working with women who are at risk, and designing and running workshops on rights and support for migration women  
  • supporting teams to provide help that is gender sensitive taking in to account that some women may have trauma as a result of violence  
  • advocating on behalf of women in the asylum system, and helping to raise awareness of the issue to make it mainstream.  

How can I help?

By raising awareness of this issue. Follow us on  and , share this explainer on your own social media channels, and start a conversation online using #GenerationEquality  

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Volunteers from the Sudanese Red Crescent

Our programme supporting refugee women and girls in East Sudan

Over the past decade, thousands of migrants and refugees have travelled through Sudan

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Celebrating our Sudanese Red Crescent leaders

鈥淭his is a good opportunity for us to let the world know what a woman can do鈥

Celebrating our Sudanese Red Crescent leaders

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The women-led programme supporting trafficked women and girls on their road to recovery

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