Answer to Question #216259 in English for jay

Question

how can gender based violence be addressed?

Answer 1

• Efforts to improve laws and policies have focused on international conventions to provide: an overarching legal framework to support (or in some cases supersede) national legislation; new specialised legislation on gender-based violence; and reform of national civil and criminal codes.
• Poor implementation is a central problem in legal reform. Common issues include lack of coordination between family and criminal courts, police or prosecutor reluctance and unwillingness or inability of the judiciary to enforce the laws – frequently due to lack of resources and specialised knowledge.
• Initiatives to improve institutional responses to gender-based violence have included training professionals, reorganising police or courts, and providing a more comprehensive and supportive response to survivors. The most effective appear to be strengthening and reforming the justice sector as a whole and building partnerships between the justice system and other sectors. Support services for survivors, run mainly by NGOs, are inadequate in most countries.
• The education sector has lagged far behind the health sector in developing a policy response to violence against women, despite growing evidence that sexual harassment and other forms of gender-based violence are widespread in educational settings.