Webinars: Learning Exchanges Promoting Best Practices in the Fight Against Gender Based Violence
Improve Legal Systems and Community Responses
About the Series
Global Rights for Women works with partners around the world to improve legal systems and community responses to violence against women and girls.
Our webinar series features experts from around the world who discuss strategies and best-practices for promoting safety for survivors and accountability for offenders.
After registering, you will receive a link to the webinar. Everyone who signs up for a webinar will receive a recording afterward.
The sixty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place from 6 to 17 March 2023 with the priority theme of, “Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.” The session will also include, “Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls.”
Global Rights for Women is offering three events focused on the CSW67 themes.
How to Serve Rural Victims and Offenders Through Videoconference Technology
Tuesday, March 7
8:00 a.m. CST/9:00 a.m. EST
90 minutes, virtual
Presenters: Jon Heath, Melissa Scaia
Pathways to Family Peace, a program of Global Rights for Women that began as a research pilot project in 2018, became an international leader on videoconference Batterers Intervention Programs (BIPs) during the COVID-19 pandemic to change the violent and abusive behaviors of perpetrators in rural and remote areas. The staff of Pathways to Family Peace have trained others around the world to deliver BIPs via videoconference that prioritizes the needs of survivors of gender based violence. Information will be provided about these remote BIP programs with important considerations about providing services virtually, and their successes and challenges.
Using Technology to Create a Survivor-Centered Coordinated Community Response
Wednesday, March 8
9:00 a.m. CST/10:00 a.m. EST
90 minutes, virtual
Presenters: Melissa Scaia, Laura Williams
When governments intervene in private violence against women and girls, risk assessments for violence and a coordinated community response is essential to keep women safe, and create accountability for perpetrators. This workshop will explore the importance of implementing a model of the Coordinated Community Response (CCR), a survivor-informed intervention model that was developed in Duluth, Minnesota designed to coordinate agency responses to violence against women and girls. Global Rights for Women is piloting a multi-city project that emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach to domestic violence, using technology to work closely with survivors, advocates and justice agencies to create policies and response protocols that prioritize survivor safety and offender accountability.
Survivor-Centered Guide to Remote Technology and Interviewing Survivors of Gender-Based Violence
Thursday, March 9
1:30 p.m. CST/2:30 p.m. EST
90 minutes, virtual
Too often, the safety and lived experience of victims of gender based violence is not fully considered in the creation of policy and practice for interacting with them in a gender-sensitive and trauma-informed ways. Learn techniques for listening to survivors that prioritize their safety, and how interviews and focus groups can address the specific needs of survivors of domestic and sexual violence, especially during a crisis. This workshop is for justice system actors, advocates and facilitators of groups and those who meet with clients individually.
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