Family preservation and prevention of neglect, abuse and violence through community child protection mechanisms: Addressing the challenges for effective community response to counter the continuum of gender based violence against children in Senegal

Abstract As of January 2018, nearly 50 million children had been uprooted from their homes due to violence, poverty or natural disasters. In 2016, one in four people seeking asylum in the EU are children. An analysis of nationally representative survey data on the prevalence of violence against children in 96 countries estimates that 1 billion children globally have experienced emotional, physical or sexual violence in the past year. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by nearly all states, must be fully implemented complied with. To support the implementation of the Convention, ten UN agencies incl. WHO have published the INSPIRE Handbook a technical package with seven strategies to end violence against children. Another significant public health issue that needs to be addressed is sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Evidence shows that being an irregular migrant or asylum seeker appears to make an individual more vulnerable to SGBV, including sexual assault and rape by traffickers and smugglers. Working alongside displaced communities and with different partners across multiple sectors are the strategies to reduce the risks of SGBV and to ensure support for survivors.

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Policy to protect adolescents affected by abuse, exploitation and violence in 2013: Is it time for reform?: MsUnderstanding peer-on-peer abuse: Reframing child protection policy to account for young people's experience of gender-based violence

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e578482014-070 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Carlene Firmin

Keyword(s):

Child Protection ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

Protection Policy ◽

Gender Based ◽

Peer Abuse ◽

Child Protection Policy

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‘I have a story to tell’: Researching migrant women’s experiences of female genital mutilation and gender-based violence in Ireland and Europe

Social Work and Social Sciences Review ◽

10.1921/swssr.v19i3.1195 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. 134-151

Author(s):

Siobán O’Brien Green

Keyword(s):

Child Protection ◽

Female Genital Mutilation ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Vulnerable Groups ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

Research Issues ◽

Genital Mutilation ◽

Gender Based ◽

And Gender ◽

Female Genital

This article presents insights and practical lessons learned from multiple studies the author has undertaken and participated in as principal or co-researcher and/or provided expert guidance to in Ireland and Europe. These studies primarily focus on gender-based violence (GBV) and female genital mutilation (FGM) and given their foci, have an implicit need for cognisance of child protection, legislation and onward referral procedures. The research issues of interest are often considered taboo, private, not to be discussed outside immediate family and shameful. There are multiple practical and logistical barriers, as well as language and psycho-social obstacles, to participating in, and undertaking, research on these issues. The article discusses the approaches and routes taken to recruit women affected and impacted by the issues of FGM and GBV for research studies. The responsibility on researchers to present research study findings in a sensitive manner which does not add stigma to marginalised and vulnerable groups, but that enables policy makers to utilise the research for legislative and practical purposes, is also discussed.Keywords: gender-based violence (GBV); female genital mutilation (FGM); migration; ethics; stigma; research design

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“We are Forgotten”: Forced Migration, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, and Coronavirus Disease-2019

Violence Against Women ◽

10.1177/10778012211030943 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 107780122110309

Author(s):

Jenny Phillimore ◽

Sandra Pertek ◽

Selin Akyuz ◽

Hoayda Darkal ◽

Jeanine Hourani ◽

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Keyword(s):

Structural Violence ◽

Forced Migration ◽

Analytical Framework ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

Forced Migrants ◽

Slow Violence ◽

Gender Based ◽

And Gender ◽

Gendered Harm ◽

The Continuum

Adopting a structural violence approach, this article explores, with survivors and practitioners, how early coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic conditions affected forced migrant sexual and gender-based violence survivors’ lives. Introducing a new analytical framework combining violent abandonment, slow violence, and violent uncertainty, we show how interacting forms of structural violence exacerbated by pandemic conditions intensified existing inequalities. Abandonment of survivors by the state increased precarity, making everyday survival more difficult, and intensified prepandemic slow violence, while increased uncertainty heightened survivors’ psychological distress. Structural violence experienced during the pandemic can be conceptualized as part of the continuum of violence against forced migrants, which generates gendered harm.

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