Au moins 150 partenaires Novib d'Europe du Sud et de l'Est ont mis en oeuvre des projets de lutte contre la violence à l'égard des femmes. Le projet Novib-VCF va permettre à Novib de mieux cerner comment celui-ci, en tant qu'organisme donateur, peut efficacement contribuer à l'élimination de la violence contre les femmes. Novib va engager une discussion en ligne avec les 150 partenaires, discussion qui permettra de définir le fil conducteur d'une politique de "good practices" dans ce domaine. Les 150 partenaires pourront échanger des instruments efficaces de lutte contre la violence à l'égard des femmes et s'informeront mutuellement sur les projets dont les résultats ont prouvé leur efficacité.

 

Le projet a commencé en janvier 2001

http://www.novib-vaw.org/htdocs/fr/index.html (en plusieurs langues)

 

Voie aussi : communiqué de Femmes du Nord "stop à la violence"

 

Violence against women

*Among women aged 15-44 worldwide, gender-based violence accounts for more death and ill health than cancer, traffic injuries and malaria put together (World Bank 1993)

* Each year 2 million girls between the ages of 5 and 15 are introduced into the commercial sex market (UNFPA 2000)

* Approximately 60 million women, mostly in Asia, are "missing" killed by infanticide, selective abortion, deliberate under-nutrition or lack of access to health care (Panos 1998; UNFPA 2000)

* Based on recent studies, more than 130 million girls and women, mostly in Africa, have undergone female mutilation and an estimated 2 million girls are at risk for undergoing the procedure each year (WHO 1998)

* Between 20,000 and 50,000 women and girls were raped in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the war in the Balkans (The Monee Project/UNICEF 1996) and more than 15,000 women and girls were raped in one year in Rwanda (UNICEF 2000b)

* In Canada the cost of Domestic violence amounts to $1.6 billion per year, including medical care and lost productivity (Cited in Hayward 2000)

* In 9 Latin American countries, a rapist who marries his victim stays out of jail (Chiarotti 2000)

* Studies in the Sub-Saharan Africa indicate that adolescent girls are five to six times more likely to be HIV positive than are boys of the same age,since girls are mostly infected by older men (UNICEF 2000b)

* A 1998 study in North America found that 1 out of every 6 women has experienced an attempted or completed rape. Of these women, 22 per cent were under 12 years old and 32 per cent were aged 12-17 at the time of the crime (Tjaden and Thoennes 1998).

* Recent studies suggest that one-third of women and girls living in the European Union are subjected to male violence (Logar 2000)