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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.

Explore past webinars

Accountability for Gender Based Violence: Videoconference Batterer Intervention Programs

Accountability for Gender Based Violence: Videoconference Batterer Intervention Programs

Adapting Responses to Sexual Violence During COVID-19 Webinar

Adapting Responses to Sexual Violence During COVID-19 Webinar

Addressing Gender-Based Violence of Women and Girls in Conflict Situations

Addressing Gender-Based Violence of Women and Girls in Conflict Situations

Coercive Controlling Violence with Considerations during COVID-19

Coercive Controlling Violence with Considerations during COVID-19

Coercive Controlling Violence Part 2: Enforcement of the Criminal Domestic Violence Law in Scotland

Coercive Controlling Violence Part 2: Enforcement of the Criminal Domestic Violence Law in Scotland

Confronting Inequality by Listening to Survivors of Gender Based Violence

Confronting Inequality by Listening to Survivors of Gender Based Violence

Court Response to Violence Against Women during COVID-19

Court Response to Violence Against Women during COVID-19

Disaster Preparation: Survivor-Centered Coordinated Community Response

Disaster Preparation: Survivor-Centered Coordinated Community Response

Domestic Violence: Danger During COVID-19 and Workplace Leadership

Domestic Violence: Danger During COVID-19 and Workplace Leadership

Early Warning System to Stop Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Last Mile 4 Development, Panel Discussion

Early Warning System to Stop Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Last Mile 4 Development, Panel Discussion

From Global Health to Safety, Why We Need the Every Woman Treaty

From Global Health to Safety, Why We Need the Every Woman Treaty

Get to know Global Rights for Women: Presented by the Iowa Advocates for Global Rights for Women

Get to know Global Rights for Women: Presented by the Iowa Advocates for Global Rights for Women

HOW TO: Engage Responsibly with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence Individually and in a Videoconference Software Group during COVID-19

HOW TO: Engage Responsibly with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence Individually and in a Videoconference Software Group during COVID-19

Risk Assessment in the Duluth Coordinated Community Response: Considerations During COVID-19

Risk Assessment in the Duluth Coordinated Community Response: Considerations During COVID-19

Risk Assessments on Domestic Violence for Batterers Intervention Programs (BIP) during COVID-19

Risk Assessments on Domestic Violence for Batterers Intervention Programs (BIP) during COVID-19

Safe Consultations with Survivors of Violence Against Women and Girls

Safe Consultations with Survivors of Violence Against Women and Girls

Stopping Femicide:  Covid-19 Brings Renewed Global Urgency

Stopping Femicide: Covid-19 Brings Renewed Global Urgency

Violence Against Women Cases in Criminal Court During COVID-19

Violence Against Women Cases in Criminal Court During COVID-19

White House Listening Session: Finding a Path to Justice and Safety for Domestic and Sexual Violence Survivors Through a Coordinated Community Response

White House Listening Session: Finding a Path to Justice and Safety for Domestic and Sexual Violence Survivors Through a Coordinated Community Response

Working with Perpetrators during COVID-19: Considerations for US Perpetrator Programs

Working with Perpetrators during COVID-19: Considerations for US Perpetrator Programs

Working with Perpetrators During COVID-19: Lessons from Europe

Working with Perpetrators During COVID-19: Lessons from Europe

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