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Gender based violence and people with disabilities Oslo, 30 th May 2011

Gender based violence and people with disabilities Oslo, 30 th May 2011 Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo www.healafrica.org. American Journal of Public Health April 2011 A Peterman, T Palermo, C Bredenkamp.

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Gender based violence and people with disabilities Oslo, 30 th May 2011

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  1. Gender based violence and people with disabilities Oslo, 30th May 2011 Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo www.healafrica.org

  2. American Journal of Public HealthApril 2011A Peterman, T Palermo, C Bredenkamp • Over 400,000 women and girls were raped in Congo during a twelve-month period in 2006 and 2007 –a yearly statistic 26 times higher than previously estimated – and further suggests that rape rates have increased since then.

  3. TertiaryReferral Hospital 160 beds 6 specialists, 12 doctors, 110 staff 110 births a month

  4. Outreach services to disabledchildren

  5. Care of complicated cases at HEAL Africa Hospital

  6. SGBV interventions 2002 - 2011 • Response to Gender based violence in North Kivu (UNICEF, IRC) • KfWGermanDevelopment Bank 2005-2008 in Maniema • Promotion of the status of women in society 2008 – 2011 in Maniema withDutchEmbassy

  7. Malnutrition

  8. Sexual Violence Programmingin North Kivu and Maniema 2003 - 2010

  9. Response:Rapid Intervention Team • PEP kits • Training in 63 front line health centres

  10. VVF repair

  11. Empowerment

  12. Legal Aid Clinics12 in Maniema8 in North Kivu

  13. Vulnerability to GBV //Vulnerability due to disability • Lower access to education • Lower earning power - poverty • Early marriage // dependency “Triple jeopardy syndrome” (Glenn 2002 – writing of African American women) Conflict – Gender - Disability

  14. Esperance Kahindo Potts disease – raped by a neighbour

  15. Kathungo Louise Low vision, kidnapped by militia, raped, shot in the leg

  16. Mapendano Mentally retarded, probably raped, STIs, cannot explain what happened to her

  17. Josephine Mother of two albino children: the first girl was kidnapped; the family have fled to Goma to protect the second

  18. MadoLukambo Teaches children with learning disabilities – furious at the abuse her girls suffer if they wander off the school premises

  19. Solutions - a systemsapproach

  20. Rights based approachBoth for Women and for PWDs • To know and be able to promote their rights • To have access to treatment, and prevention of HIV • To alleviate impairment through medical treatment • To increase income through microfinance

  21. She has built her own house thanks to micro-finance

  22. Member of PWD solidarity group Sells salt fish

  23. Agenda for action (1) • Reduce vulnerability of women with disabilities through fighting poverty and illiteracy • Change attitudes within the community by mobilizing faith based groups • Make an appropriate legal framework and inform people in every walk of life

  24. Agenda for action (2) • Remove attitudinal, financial and physical barriers to care and justice for women with disabilities • Learn from practical examples: make research from around the world widely available • Do more action and programmatic research, publish and communicate to make the urgent needs VISIBLE

  25. MafisiAn example of community action www.healafrica.org

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