12/10/2020 | News release | Distributed by Public on 12/10/2020 09:34
Joint statement by Georges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti, Secretary-general of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive[.]
Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2020
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Violence against women is a violation of human rights and an impediment to achieving gender equality. The Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) joins UN Women in the collective and resolute fight for gender equality and against the pandemic of violence against women and the denial of their rights.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the existing high levels of all forms of violence against women. As the world retreated to the refuge of their homes, for many women, this was not a safe harbour. Reports worldwide have shown an alarming increase in domestic violence, clearly making this a shadow pandemic that calls for concerted action by world leader
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The report further states that, domestic violence occurs in all population subgroups. In many countries, including Kenya, women are often socialized into tolerating and rationalizing a key component of domestic violence, like abuse by husbands and to remain silent about it whenever it occurs.
Violence against women come in four different forms: physical, sexual, psychological and economic. Even though psychological abuse may not be easily recognized, it is the most common form of abuse against women.
In many setups, psychological or emotional abuse, the most common form of violence against women, often goes unnoticed by the victim, or rather not socially considered as abuse. Emotional abuse comes in subtle forms of insults, humiliation, belittling, threats against your life and many more. Emotional violence, constitutes one in three of all GBV cases recorded.