Violence against women

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Case study: Restoring women’s positive customary rights

The position of women in Southern Sudan is weak and vulnerable, particularly in the rural areas with regard to access of their legal rights and human rights in the areas of family, marriage, succession and inheritance and land laws

16 days of activism

The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an international campaign originating from the first Women's Global Leadership Institute sponsored by the Center for Women's Global Leadership in 1991.

Violence against women: How do we fight it?

Each day, Ethiopian women suffer blows and beatings, rape and threats, from husbands, colleagues and even strangers. Everybody knows! But what are the solutions? NPA Ethiopia wants a little less conversation, and a little more action! How? Read more here:

Not victims of violence, but survivors.

- After 13 years, I still cry when I hear the survivors stories, but never in front of them, says Maria Munir, Executive Directress of TTTM, the Organization against Gender Based Violence. (Tsotawi Tekat Tekalakeye Mahber) They run Ethiopia’s only safe-house for women. NPA supports them in a program that can rebuild a bruised and broken self image of abused women, as well as giving staff and other contacts more knowledge about the problem and possible solutions.

NPA partner honoured

The Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq recently honoured Ms Khandan M. Jaza for her book “An Ocean of Crime”, which highlights the problems faced by women in the Kurdistan Region.

NPA policy for ending violence against women (VAW)

Download the policy here:

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Gender policy workshop in South Sudan

Norwegian Peoples Aid Sudan country program supported the Ministry of Gender Social Welfare and Religious Affairs (MGSW/RA) of South Sudan workshop for the development of a gender policy framework in South Sudan.

Good practices in combating and eliminating violence against women

On 22 December 2003, the UN General Assembly adopted by consensus a resolution entitled “In-depth study on all forms of violence against women” (A/RES/58/185). The resolution requests the Secretary-General to conduct an in-depth study on all forms and manifestations of violence against women. The report from the study is now available.

Participants at the Ending Violence against Women Conference 2004 in Oslo

In all societies, now and in the past, certain tasks and patterns of behaviour have been ascribed to either men or women and thus understood to be male or female. Gender differences have often confirmed and legitimated social inequalities, with men systematically in superior positions compared to women. Most societies practice to a larger or lesser extent discrimination against women economically, politically, sexually and culturally. The gender relation is a power relation, expressed both in public and private spheres. Gender inequality is also present at the structural level of most societies, e.g. in the economic, political and religious structures. This inhibit women from exercising their human rights.