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The document discusses gender-based violence (GBV) as a significant human rights issue that affects individuals based on their gender, leading to severe physical, sexual, and psychological harm. It highlights the consequences of GBV on survivors, families, and communities, including health, social, and economic impacts. The text emphasizes the importance of addressing both survivors and perpetrators in prevention and response efforts, linking GBV to broader human rights principles.

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The document discusses gender-based violence (GBV) as a significant human rights issue that affects individuals based on their gender, leading to severe physical, sexual, and psychological harm. It highlights the consequences of GBV on survivors, families, and communities, including health, social, and economic impacts. The text emphasizes the importance of addressing both survivors and perpetrators in prevention and response efforts, linking GBV to broader human rights principles.

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Gender Awareness

and Development

Presentation of Group 2
Presented by:
Padilla, Enrico
Delas Alas, Ronel
Foz, Mark Jay
Escalate, Benjay
Isla, apple Joy
Villanueva, Dena
Lesson 24:Gender Base Violence

Gender-based violence is one of the most widespread


and human rights abuses, but least recognized in the world. It
refers to any harm perpetrated against a person’s will based
on gender, the socially ascribed differences between males
and females.
Gender-based violence has devastating consequences
not only for victims, but also for society as a whole. (Sigal
et.al 2013). It results in physical, sexual, and psychological
harm to both men and women and includes any form of
violence or abuse that targets men or women on the basis of
their sex.
In the Philippines, gender-based violence clearly been
placed in the realm of women’s human rights over the past
decade. Prior to 1993, most governments regarded violence
against women largely as a private matter between individuals.
(Loi et.al 1999)
Gender-based violence experienced by women and girls
refers to battering and other forms of intimate partner violence
including marital rape, sexual violence, dowry-related violence,
female infanticide, and sexual abuse of female children in the
household, honor crimes, early marriage, forced marriage,
female genital cutting and other traditional practices. Other
traditional practices harmful to women, sexual harassment in
the workplace and educational institutions, commercial sexual
exploitation, trafficking of girls and women, and violence and
Gender-based violence cuts across
public and private spheres, including home,
school, and work takes place during peacetime
and conflict. It is both a human rights and a
development issue, with negative
consequences for both women and men.
Lesson 25: Consequences of Gender Based
Violence

These consequences include serious, immediate, and


long-term impacts on the sexual. Physical and psychological
health of survivors.
Health consequences include unwanted pregnancies,
complications from unsafe abortions, sexually transmitted
infections including HIV, injuries, mental health, and
psychosocial effects (depression, anxiety, post-traumatic
stress, suicide and death). Violence also affects children’s
survival, development, and school participation.
Social consequences extended to families and
communities. Families can also be stigmatized as
consequence of gender-based violence. For example,
when children are born following a rape, or if family
members choose to stand by a survivor, fellow
members of their community may avoid them.
Economic consequences include the cost of
public health and social welfare systems and reduced
ability of many survivors to participate in social and
economic life.
Lesson 26: Survivor, Victim and
Perpetrator
Survivor is the preferred term (not a “victim”) of a
person who has lived through an incident of gender-based
violence. A perpetrator is a person, group, or institution that
inflicts, supports, or condones violence or other abuse against
a person or group of persons. Characteristics of perpetrators
include:
a. Persons with real or perceived power;
b. persons in decision-making positions; and
c. persons in authority
In all incidents of GBV, there is always a survivor /
victim and a perpetrator. Therefore, all actions in the
prevention and responses to GBV need to address both the
survivor and the perpetrator.
Remember: The words we use to communicate a
message to people who are listening. Survivor is the
preferred term for those who have lived through a GBV
incident. A perpetrator is a person who commits an act of
GBV. There might be only one perpetrator, or there might be
more. In any act of GBV, there is a survivor and a perpetrator.
All actions in prevention must address potential survivors and
potential perpetrators. In addition, all actions in response
need to address both the survivor and the perpetrator.
Human Rights
Human rights are universal, inalienable, indivisible,
interconnected, and interdependent. Everyone is entitled to all
the rights and freedoms without distinction of any kind, such as
race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinions,
national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Prevention of and response to gender-based violence is
directly linked to the protection of human rights. Acts of
gender-based violence violate a number of human rights
principles enshrined in international human rights instruments
and in our Philippine Constitution.
These include the following, amongst others:

 the right to life, liberty, and property of persons;


 the right to the highest attainable standard of
physical and mental health;
 the right to freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman
or degrading treatment or punishment;
 the right to freedom of opinion and expression and
to education; (UNFPA 2014)
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listening!! ☺️

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