Gender-based violence hinders unilateral
BY NATALIE CHOLOHEI
GENDER-based violence is hindering women from progressing in life, says an advocate and independent consultant for GBV, Zuabe Tinning.
Ms Tinning said women are struggling to advance in their personal development as well as career development and one main obstacle is GBV.
Ms Tinning, a survivor of GBV, has been doing a lot of advocacy in that area.
She found out that men need to be sensitised about gender equality.
“The whole idea is to get men to understand women and how they can support women in advancing in their lives — whether family or personal life,” she said.
“If only we can remove that obstacle, women can advance in a lot of things in our country.”
Ms Tinning was addressing the women, including men, during the International Women’s Day celebrations at Lae Botanical gardens last week.
She said GBV is not only about men violating women’s rights but it is also about women violating other women and men’s rights.
Ms Tinning said this shows that the perpetrators, whether men or women, have the power to suppress others.
“Those perpetrators have powers, some sort of authority to make decisions about things, they use that to suppress other women,” she said.
“But if we can take control of that then I believe we can be able to support more women in their life, the profession and business and every other aspect of their lives.”
The rate of GBV cases in the country has escalated to two-out-of-three women suffering from violence to more than three women suffering silently.
Ms Tinning said violence is not only physical violence but there are also other forms, including psychological or emotional violence, social and economical violence that women face yet do not know about.
“Most think that violence is only physical violence, until the right information gets out to them. I believe they will come out and speak of their violence,” she said.
“When they start to understand violence, then they will be able to come out and then we can assure them that there are services available that can support them.”
Morobe province has a network of service providers including Femili PNG, family support centre, family and sexual violence action committee, welfare and child protection, who are working together to address GBV in the province.
They are encouraging service providers of GBV and family sexual violence in other centres to build a networking system because one organisation cannot solve all the violence cases alone.
Working hand-in-hand through available resources can lead to achieving the national strategic plan to have zero-tolerance of GBV.
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