Vienna +10: Speak Out
E-Consultation Survey Results

Violence Against Women: Next Steps for Addressing Violence Against Women in five years (responses to key topics)

Campaigns

• international tribunals to continue to bring to justice (and to world attention) nations and groups
• To run international campaigns
• Education/ Awareness/Media/Analysis
• Ask women to struggle for their rights and to make aware illiterate women to women rights
• Address the permission-to-violate (hate-speak) generated on the Internet and media
• Assessing the impact of the many programs on VAW
• Avoid colonialist moral high ground
• Balance of the real situation of violence against women in our countries
• Change the abuser - he/she has to be committed to a special program
• Change the way women are portrayed in the media
• Communication
• Consciousness raising
• State the main ideas you'll be talking about
• Continue learning about and from efforts underway, document and publicise them widely so Women should be educated
• Continue the struggle for attitudinal change, especially in the treatment of violence survivors.
• Creating gender neutral media especially in ICT
• Data collection
• Demonstrate a societies dependency on women
• Do more media outreach
• Do more trainings for professional groups
• Doing an in depth and critical analysis of how much have we gained in these last decade, how effective have been the strategies used, and come up with new or reviewed strategies
• Educate both policy makers and general populations, using a human rights analysis
• Educate from early childhood and throughout one's life that there is no impunity in any form
• educate others to do the same, and oppose all forces, which diminish women's rights
• Educate policymakers on women's human rights
• Educate women to resist it
• Educating the public and state officials about the human rights for women
• Education in an early age
• Education of Civil Society about the issues
• Denounce it
• Let's emphasis on its negative impact on society as a whole, making it everyone's business to get rid of it and not only a 'women's issue'.
• Getting the public to want to do something about this issue
• Break the silence about VAW
• Educating women: to refuse, to tell about it and to get proper physical training
• Educate the teenagers and at the school girls and
• Educate decision-makers in the concept of gender
• Education of Women that empowers
• Human education for women and children
• Define violence realistically and effectively
• Consciousness raising ,and awareness
• Continue to educate all women in rural and urban areas who do not yet understand the tools at their
• Increased training in rural areas
• Reassertion and legitimization of feminist ideas and challenge to postmodernist, neo-liberalist, fun
• Publicize it and its costs to society. (News articles, report of T.V., etc.
• Empower women
• CLEAR ASSESSMENT AND ANALYSIS OF ACTIVISM AGAINST V.A.W. IN THE PAST 10 YEARS
• Identify and articulate causes of violence against women
• Raise US women awareness of US complicity in VAW around world
• Egalitarian education from early childhood
• Family and friends are equipped to intervene in situations
• Gender awareness raising on VAW at the community level and among government representatives promote human rights learn ring at the community level to achieve the above.
• Empower women with education
• Empowerment of women.
• Enculturate our children and the planet into building respect for women that prohibits sex with children
• Family and friends are equipped to intervene in situations
• Gender awareness raising on VAW at the community level and among government representatives promote human rights learn ring at the community level to achieve the above.
• Gender sensitive education from childhood in family, community and school
  
• Highlight contributions of women
• Increase examination of the socio-political context of VAW
• Increase news coverage of the issues
• Increased awareness on the negative effect of violence against women.
• Information's dissemination
• Make it a headline issue
• Media and campaigns
• Move past West solution to rest's problems - hear more about elsewhere
• National and regional legislation should be accompanied by training and education in human rights
• Present or make public specific testimonies of all sorts of women
• Prevention of violence in educational system
• Public enlightenment
• Sensitisation/education of women to their rights
• Support to rural areas and awareness raising with women AND men
• Teach young children anger management classes
• The media should become an instrument of positive rather than negative portrayal of women and girls as sexual objects
• To work with the media to bring info and data on the problem
• TrainingTraining service providers using best practices modules
• Training workshops
• Work to prevent abuse through education and other methods

Implementation and Monitoring of Legislation

• Actual practice and take action for abolishment of VAW, not only paper works!
• Better Enforcement of the standards women have won in past 10 yrs -- e.g., VAW laws enforced by judges
• Commitment to dramatically reduced poverty by the government and multilateral institutions
• Create awareness in judges
• Create more police stations for women and at the care of trained policewomen
• Designing the government strategy to combat violence against women
• Early warming system of violence against women
• Effective implementation of women's economic rights.
• Effective investigation of violence against women
• Eliminate gender bias in legal sector
• Enact/enforce legislation at the domestic level
• Actual practice and take action for abolishment of VAW, not only paper works!
• Better Enforcement of the standards women have won in past 10 yrs -- e.g., VAW laws enforced by judges
• Commitment to dramatically reduced poverty by the government and multilateral institutions
• Create awareness in judges
• Create more police stations for women and at the care of trained policewomen
• Designing the government strategy to combat violence against women
• Early warming system of violence against women
• Effective implementation of women's economic rights.
• Effective investigation of violence against women
• Eliminate gender bias in legal sector
• Enact/enforce legislation at the domestic level
• ENFORCE STRICTER LAWS WITH HARSHER PUNISHMENTS.
• Enhance the capacity of the judicial and police services to do the job of protecting vulnerable women
• Ensure thoughtful legislation and its implementation
• Entrench issues on human rights agendas (of NGOs, government officials
• Establishing Human Right Commission
• Implementation of international commitments at national level.
• Increase attention, interest and investment in prevention!
• Invite the countries authorities to protect and to promote women rights
• Maintain the strength of the state to legislate for the protection of women including their economic protection, otherwise the commodification of women will intensify
• Major reforms in the police, judiciary & shelters in cases of violence
• Make less tolerant and more challenging the responses of those who know about (i.e. friends family colleagues etc) instances of VAW
• Much better implementation and resourcing of VAW legislation
• National and reliable records of violence against women
• Training of all level of government officials and police
• Violence against women Women's work included in GNP, etc)
• Making the police training curriculum gender-sensitive (including topics like gender and gender-violence)
• The creation of National program on VAW
• Sanctions against violence perpetrators
• State budget must give priority to education and health
• To educate law enforcement staff, judges etc
• Women must be allowed to determine their own destinies including their bodies
• Commitment of Government
• Enforcement of legislation and its penalties.
• Enact laws that protect and then actually follow through with the penalties.
• Enforcing rights or achieving de facto equality under CEDAW
  
• End impunity of state actors (police)
• Invoke individual and community responsibility alongside State accountability; we should aim for a w
• The police and social workers must become familiar with the laws so that they can no longer say that
• Enabling legislation
• Accepting laws on Domestic Violence
• Adequate and consistent punishment for perpetrators
• Change in cultural and community norms
• Change the laws that fail to protect women
• Domestic Violence legislation.
• Enact Laws, provisions against violence
• End to impunity to perpetrators
• Hold U.S. judges accountable for their failure to keep women and children safe from abuse and to uphold the law
• Improvement of laws and their implementation
• Impunity of non-state actors
• Law on violence
• Law should be strict
• Laws
• Lobby for enactment of Family Protection Act
• Lobby the National Assembly to adopt the domestic violence law
• Make rape a and rape of children a crime punishable for longer, harsher terms
• Order of protection for violence survivors
• Support women in exercising their rights
• Criminalising the buyer of women for sexual exploitation
• Countries must have policies punishing violence, these policies will encourage enforcement of laws that protect the rights of women to live free from violence
• Promoting Rights based Approach to programming
• Presenting cases that make precedent at international courts
• acceptance of domestic violence as a crime
• continue developing fairer legal systems
• continue work towards legislation improvement
• Enlarge the legal framework for empowerment of women, and for an effective reauthorize VAWA with additions that maintain or add funds where they have been Elimination of forced abortion
• National Law of sexual harassment
• Secure a law against it
• Sexual Harassment Act
• Strengthening laws
• Strong laws which implementation is being closely monitored
• Stronger accountability of States for state violence
• That CEDAW is domesticated
• to develop good laws against violence against women

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Economic Justice, Globalization
Linking Issues

• emphasize global problem
• addressing structural violence
• More economic opportunities for low class women
• Public Assistance and unemployment benefits for women
• ANALYTICAL WORK AND ACTIVISM LINKING THE IMPACT OF GOBALIZATION WITH
• The white supremacy model must be dealt with in euro America ideology.
• Necessity to counter-balance the effects of globalisation to oppose trafficking
• applying economic, social and cultural rights in addressing VAW
• Reject a multinational corporation led world which has no values other than \
• Accountability of private actors, including TNCs, for VAW
• Continued public education linking violence against women to violation of human rights.
• Raise and highlight global issues that root causes leading to violence against women from a women
• Laws and education to know the laws
• Understanding better the relationship between violence against women and globalization, particularly the new forms or new contexts or expressions of violence against women that are emerging or have emerged as result of this current stage of the globalization process
• Redefining violence against women to incorporate the full range of human rights that women are denied
• Bring cases of men's violence against women in ward/conflict situations before international courts
• Improve economic and political empowerment of indigenous women, without excluding men
• Lining VAW with the wider issues of security, miniaturization, poverty
• solution of socioeconomic problems

Organizing

• Community Activism and Mobilization
• Conferences
• Organize meetings, conferences, etc. that bring together leaders of the VAW movement to learn about human rights
• Strengthening women's activism and agency so that every woman knows what her rights are and strives to
• Claim them.
• Change comes from grass roots movements
• The global north-south movement against all forms of VAW
• The creation of National Coalition on VAW
• Involve more women in women rights work
• Harness community action/accountability

Awareness

• Public awareness
• Increase awareness of the extent and nature of violence against women
• Documenting women human's rights violations
• Strong position, awareness and policy against domestic violence
• Raise women's level of awareness as to what constitutes "violence" in terms of abuse.
• Continue to raise public awareness, especially of those most vulnerable with little means to
• protection of victims
• Public awareness
• raising more awareness
• valuing women as people
• Create awareness in U.S. that VAW is a human rights violation in this country.

Political Participation

• Defeat George Bush
• Get more women into positions of political power
• Women who really understand VAW must achieve meaningful political power and should be supported if
• They achieve it
• Political Changes
• Political Mobilization of Civil Society
  
• Appoint able women at top levels to stimulate debate and nurture change
• The assertion of Violence Against Women as a priority in the broader political
• To get organized politically
• Ensuring women's voices at all decision-making levels
• BE a voice. Let the government know this will not be condoned

Victim Support

• Ensuring that the voice of the many survivors is not forgotten in all the debates and forums on the issue
  
• Women training programs on self-security
• Enrichment of infrastructure for battered women and kids
• Increase the number of programs/services that address prevention of GBV, also working on self esteem
• Help victims by proving hope and help
• Services - the movement should learn to engage in direct services to women victims
• Victim support
• To create shelters for women who face violence
• Women must be helped to get out of abusive relationships with appropriate services
• Work on child trafficking
• provide awareness and support for victims
• secure more women's shelters in the country
• to support initiatives (shelters or other) that help women suffering violence
• Better protection from violent spouses, ex-partners
• To support initiatives (shelters or other) that help women suffering violence
• Better protection from violent spouses, ex-partners
• Lobby for more money for intervention programs for young children
• More women must pursue higher education - I'm hoping that eventually, we can start a scholarship program through PARC-VRAMC for survivors.
• CREATE "SAFE HOUSES" FOR WOMEN THAT ENCOURAGES THEM AND PREPARES THEM TO LIVE ON THEIR OWN AND NOT DEPEND ON A MAN FOR SECURITY.
• Establishment of more supporting services especially shelters which would accommodate males over the access to adequate support and care
• Continue to offer services to victims
• Establishing Shelters and Rehabilitation Programs

Resources and Capacity Building

• Fortalecimiento de Capacidades de las mujseres organizadas
• Expand NGO/private sector funding of resources for women and girls, self-reliance initiatives
• Local capacity for advocacy
• Recognise combating VAW/GBV as a universal priority; allocate appropriate resources (incl. IECs); en
• More resources needed by women 8217;s NGOs
• More funding should be made available to deal with this canker which is so widespread
• Funding for NGO's that deal with violence issues
• Increase US funding for global programs
• Provide more money for organizations to work in these areas in conflict settings
• OFFER SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS FOR WOMEN TO RETURN TO SCHOOL
• How to generate resources to support this work
• Strong commitment to ensure women's access to reproductive resources and assets
• Sexual misuse/domestic violence resources
• Secure continued funding for current work to combat VAW and funds to expand services
• Dedicate resources to equitable and sustainable education, health care and distribution of resources
• Improvement of legal situation for victims of trafficking in persons
• Stop all trafficking of women and children with human rights
• Funding organisations that are already working in this field
• Helping organizations on the ground to construct longer- term social change approach programs to prevent domestic violence. This may be done through program tools, learning forums, exchanges, publications, technical support, supporting networks and collaborations, etc.
• Apoyo y soporte tecnico y econòmico para programas de capacitacion
• Resources for women-focused initiatives, positive action measures
• To develop women's groups capacity to work with other social agents against VAW
• Every effort should be made by women's human rights advocates to ensure that the successes we have chalked at the international level are not taken away from us, especially considering the fundamentalist attitudes that we have had to deal with in recent times at the international level.
• there must be strong cooperation between the women organization
• Bring women with a clear commitment to human rights values into world leadership positions with authority
• Formacion de lideraza local, nacional e internatcional de mujeres que puedan mantener
• More focused empowerment for women activists and male allies
• Link VAW with everyday behavior -- linking it with how it affects everyone
• combat alcohol abuse, poverty, and disintegration of indigenous communities, which is important cause
• Re-politicize the VAW movement
• Strengthen Networking of Women's' Organisations and organisations for Women
• Strengthening the feminist approach to issues of VAW to ensure that it is not watered down
• To support women's international networks work financially

Networks, Networking

• Networking with local authorities, villages and police
• International networking and cooperation

Peace

• Increase focus on women in conflict and distress
• Address the issues of the military and arms industry, the political position of the US government
• Focus on women in war and post-conflict situation
• End the legitimacy of militarism and military intervention
• Working for peace
• Develop work of ICC re war crimes against women
• Moving US and other industrialized cultures toward cultures of peace and Implementation of 1325 using progressive political criteria, not just gender/sex
• Critically analyse and campaign against the increasing tendencies of militarism and on security (war on terror)
• The impact of war on society and women and children

Human Rights Framework

• Continuing to promote a progressive human rights agenda at all levels of governance with an insistence on a timely justice process.
• We need a creative and compelling argument why VAW is a human rights issue - by relating it to the m
  
• EMPHASIS ON A HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK TO LOOK AT ALL ASPECTS OF V.A.W.
• raise awareness in US of how HR framework offers more to work on VAW, e.g. indivisibility of rights, better definition of discrimination, etc

UN System

• The international committee to eliminate all forms of violence against women. This committee can be part of CSW
• International recognition, through the UN, criminal courts etc that it is a criminal offence
• More UN attention with firm commitments
• Report the state violence to the UN special reporteur on violence against women
  
• Persuade the UN through wide-scale campaigns to enforce international conventions Recognition by WHO and World Health Assembly of violence against women as a Strengthen the UN and its work for human rights

LGBT

• Build an analysis across advocacy movements that sees issues related to sexuality as a fundamental root of much VAW
• Recognise heteronormativity as inextricably tied to generic gender inequity and VAW/GBV,

Economic Development

• Empower women, not only with rhetorical ideas but with abilities
• Linking demands for socio-economic progress (for example using Millennium development goals)
• Get a high profile crimes against women case investigated and prosecuted by the ICC
• Achieving better economic resources.
• Empower communities

Intersection

• Address Racism - MAKE THE LINKS
• Address intersections/differences
• Seriously addressing issues of intersectional oppression analytically and in practice