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sunlit_music) wrote2009-12-08 10:00 pm
sunlit_music) wrote2009-12-08 10:00 pm
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Domestic violence resources for different countries
Ideas on how to combat domestic violence in the Phillipines at a widespread level. Fighting domestic violence successfully must involve all aspects of government and law enforcementworking together:
http://www.synergos.org/bridgingleadership/04/d_2_case_study_tessie_fernandez_philippines.pdf
The info is extremely invaluable (especially from page 9 onwards):
Getting the police to address domestic violence properly:
Rape cases were different altogether. The police had to record these incidents because rape was clearly a criminal offense and more "controversial" in nature. One time, the police called to say that the woman Lihok-Pilipina sent over merely kept on crying and refused to talk. They had scolded and needled her, so a Lihok-Pilipina staff reported. This made Tessie Fernandez livid.
Eventually, she arranged for the traumatized woman to be interviewed in the Women's Support and Crisis Center with a police officer present. She instructed the policeman not to speak a word and to attest merely that the woman's sworn statement was made in his presence.
Tired of what she called an "anti-woman system" and the organization’s many battles with the police, Ms. Fernandez approached the Police Chief in charge of staff development and offered to train the police on gender sensitivity. The Chief was interested but confessed that they had no budget for such. Ms. Fernandez sought the help of the Mayor instead, and received initial funding. Soon, gender sensitivity trainings were conducted one after the other for the police force of Cebu City.
On hospitals and domestic violence:
Tessie Fernandez also encouraged the (Health) Department to look into the women's relationship with their spouses, particularly in cases where the woman sought medical attention but did not show any obvious medical problem. She pointed out that the problem could possibly be due to stress or trauma in the home. Eventually the City Health Department became adept in detecting such cases and referred them to Lihok-Pilipina.
Start with people's concerns to get them to understand and care about domestic violence:
"Like, for example, 'Start where the people are.' This is still very applicable. Start with their issues. How do they feel about it. What are their concepts. "Or ‘From concrete to abstract; from small to big.' In fact that's how we started. We didn't begin by explaining power relations, we simply addressed the beatings and bruises. With the police, we offered to help them do their jobs and only later did we try to introduce gender and development concepts. This way, they grew bigger, learning and validating the concepts as they went along.
http://www.synergos.org/bridgingleadership/04/d_2_case_study_tessie_fernandez_philippines.pdf
The info is extremely invaluable (especially from page 9 onwards):
Getting the police to address domestic violence properly:
Rape cases were different altogether. The police had to record these incidents because rape was clearly a criminal offense and more "controversial" in nature. One time, the police called to say that the woman Lihok-Pilipina sent over merely kept on crying and refused to talk. They had scolded and needled her, so a Lihok-Pilipina staff reported. This made Tessie Fernandez livid.
Eventually, she arranged for the traumatized woman to be interviewed in the Women's Support and Crisis Center with a police officer present. She instructed the policeman not to speak a word and to attest merely that the woman's sworn statement was made in his presence.
Tired of what she called an "anti-woman system" and the organization’s many battles with the police, Ms. Fernandez approached the Police Chief in charge of staff development and offered to train the police on gender sensitivity. The Chief was interested but confessed that they had no budget for such. Ms. Fernandez sought the help of the Mayor instead, and received initial funding. Soon, gender sensitivity trainings were conducted one after the other for the police force of Cebu City.
On hospitals and domestic violence:
Tessie Fernandez also encouraged the (Health) Department to look into the women's relationship with their spouses, particularly in cases where the woman sought medical attention but did not show any obvious medical problem. She pointed out that the problem could possibly be due to stress or trauma in the home. Eventually the City Health Department became adept in detecting such cases and referred them to Lihok-Pilipina.
Start with people's concerns to get them to understand and care about domestic violence:
"Like, for example, 'Start where the people are.' This is still very applicable. Start with their issues. How do they feel about it. What are their concepts. "Or ‘From concrete to abstract; from small to big.' In fact that's how we started. We didn't begin by explaining power relations, we simply addressed the beatings and bruises. With the police, we offered to help them do their jobs and only later did we try to introduce gender and development concepts. This way, they grew bigger, learning and validating the concepts as they went along.