ANALYSING AND ADDRESSING GENDER BASED VIOLENCE (GBV).ppt

www.covenantuniversity.edu.n Raising a new Generation of Leaders ANALYSING AND ADDRESSING GENDER BASED VIOLENCE (GBV) By NICK ESSIEN Department of Political Science and International...

www.covenantuniversity.edu.n Raising a new Generation of Leaders ANALYSING AND ADDRESSING GENDER BASED VIOLENCE (GBV) By NICK ESSIEN Department of Political Science and International Relations  INTRODUCTION Gender-based violence has become a predominant issue in the world today and Nigeria is not an exemption. Many local and international treaties have been signed and various national policies pursued. These efforts yield limited the positive result of equality for women with men in social, political and economic spheres. 2  Introduction Cont’D GBV occurs to women in all areas of life, the family is the place where women experience the most violence and nearly one-third (30%) of all women worldwide have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from an intimate partner (WHO, 2013). In line with the foregoing, this class will examine the meanings of ‘Gender-based’ violence, forms of ‘gender-based violence’, causes of gender-based violence and finally how Gender-based violence can be addressed in Nigeria. 3  OBJECTIVES This class will focus on: Examining the concept of Gender-Based violence against women. Forms of Gender Based Violence Causes of Gender Based Violence in Nigeria Suggest ways which Gender Based Violence can be addressed in Nigeria 4  CONCEPT OF GENDER BASED VIOLENCE Gender Based Violence (GBV) is defined by the United Nations (UN) in the Convention on Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) as any act that is likely to or results in physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women including threats or acts of coercion, arbitrary deprivation of liberty, private or public, in the family or community (United Nations, 2010). 5  Concept Of Gender Based Violence Contd Gender-Based Violence (GBV), broadly describes “violence against male or females taken in the form of forced and child marriages, husbandor wife battering, rape, sexual harassment, and harmful cultural practices” (Venganai, 2015:145). 6  FORMS OF GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Overt physical abuse (includes battering, sexual assault, at home or in the workplace) Psychological abuse (includes deprivation of liberty, forced marriage, sexual harassment, at home or in the workplace). Deprivation of resources needed for physical and psychological well-being (including health care, nutrition, education, means of livelihood). Treatment of women as commodities and men as load carriers or beast of burden (includes trafficking in male or female for sexual exploitation). 7  CAUSES OF GENDER VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA Indecent dressing Misunderstanding Illiteracy Discrimination Poverty Infidelity Unemployment Broken homes Carelessness Struggles for survival Aggression Age 8  SUGGESTIONS ON HOW GENDER BASED VIOLENCE CAN BE ADDRESSED IN NIGERIA There should be advocacy and legislation on the abolition of all traditional practices that limit women’s access to credit, economic resources, property rights and right to inheritance. Gender Policies that state the strategies to improve every genders economic rights, should be made effective. 9  SUGGESTIONS ON HOW GENDER BASED VIOLENCE CAN BE ADDRESSED IN NIGERIA Nigerian government should put substantive measures in place to protect all gender from violence by both state and non-state actors. All legal provisions denying equal capacity under the law should be repealed. Men and Women human rights should be integrated in the application and implementation of Sharia laws in Nigeria. 10 11