UNITE! Prevention of Gender Based Violence Must Include Workers’ Rights
While the prevention work continues to target individual perpetrators of violence, we pay equal attention to the ways in which gender based violence manifests structurally.
Gender based violence is the result of unequal power relations and finds formal expression in laws, policies and norms that entrench these unequal power relations and perpetuate violence. Gender based violence manifests at all levels of society, but interventions lack sufficient emphasis on the macroeconomic level at which gender-based violence is embedded through the policy choices at institutional level – both nationally and internationally. These systematically ignore the needs and realities of women and girls, including by eroding the already poorly resourced public services they rely on and failing to prioritize their wellbeing.
