Victims of intimate partner violence lose a total of 8 million days of paid work each year.
Journal of Occupational Health Policy, How employment helps female victims of intimate partner violence: A qualitative study, 2007
Global Rights for Women provides legal reform and systems change support through a survivor-centered coordinated community response that prioritizes equality and safety, in order to effectively end gender-based violence against women and girls.
International and Domestic partner collaborations
Global Rights for Women works at the invitation of national and international partners around the world to advance a survivor-centered approach to law, policy and systems change tailored to our partners specific needs, making it highly adaptable and collaborative.
SURVIVOR-CENTERED LEGAL AND SYSTEMS REFORM
About the work
We combine resources to create a customized approach based on survivor and community needs. Every project requires thoughtful engagement, including listening to survivors to inform law, policies and systems change.
Usually our project partnerships engage multiple stakeholders at all levels of community, including leaders of government or civil society organizations, survivors, advocates, systems personnel and law enforcement.
Listening to Survivors
The foundation of this approach is the recognition that gender-based violence is a manifestation of gender and racial inequality, and is deeply rooted in patriarchy. We use focus groups and interviews to engage survivors in identifying gaps in the system response to violence against women and girls.
Global Rights for Women’s works at the invitation of national and international partners around the world to advance a survivor-centered approach to law, policy and systems change tailored to our partners specific needs, making it highly adaptable and collaborative.
Nonviolence Programs
Global Rights for Women has expanded its work to incorporate Pathways to Family Peace –a program aimed at achieving transformational change for women who use abuse and for male domestic violence offenders.
Pathways to Family Peace uses the Duluth Model of abuse intervention, which identifies common coercive control tactics used in intimate partner violence to create the curricula for changing behavior. Because sessions are held virtually, it makes it easier for people from any location to attend a court-ordered class.
An important aspect of Pathways to Family Peace, is that it is based on a survivor-centered approach to solving the problems of domestic violence and abusive behavior.
Legal and Policy Reform
We provide a framework for systems change and legal reform to end gender-based violence that includes a survivor-centered coordinated community response, prioritizing equality and safety for women and girls, and accountability for abusers.
Each project we do is customized to both the local communities and global context of violence against women and girls. Our legal and policy reform work is grounded in survivor-centered research, data and tested strategies from around the world.
Training and Education
We work to shift the narrative regarding gender-based violence and work to eradicate it at all levels of society.
We know that addressing gender-based violence effectively is possible. Global Rights for Women provides educational tools, resources and training that act as a roadmap for effective societal and systems change.
We provide international, national and local training to demonstrate how the justice system and community leaders can work together to create policies and procedures to respond effectively to gender-based violence, understand survivor needs and hold offenders accountable.
Kirri de Marco, men’s behavior change facilitator, Brisbane, Australia
Our Partners
Our work together improves law, policy and practice to achieve safety and equality for women and girls in our community and numerous countries globally, having a ripple effect around the world.
INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC PARTNER COLLABORATIONS
Global Rights for Women works at the invitation of national and international partners around the world to advance a survivor-centered approach to law, policy and systems change tailored to our partners specific needs, making it highly adaptable and collaborative.
Khamsavath Chanthavysouk, Policy Specialist, UN Women
Explore Collaborations
Project Reports
Vietnam 2022: Prosecuting Cases of Domestic and Sexual Violence, A Survivor Centered Approach to Prosecution Training
Training designed to increase the capacity of prosecutors to apply a survivor-centered approach to prosecution of domestic and sexual violence cases.
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Greece 2022: Developing a Nationwide Domestic Violence Risk Assessment
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Georgia 2022: Improving Delivery of Survivor Services
Ending violence against women and girls within the Republic of Georgia using state and victim- services agency intervention.
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Georgia 2022: GRADA Risk Assessment
Ending violence against women and girls within the Republic of Georgia by improving mechanisms for detecting women who are at-risk of further violence.
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Southeast Asia and the Training Manual Pacific 2021: Prosecutors Responding to Violence Against Women and Girls in Asia and the Pacific
Supporting survivor justice in Southeast Asia and the Pacific region to train prosecutors and address gender bias in the criminal justice system to hold abusers accountable.
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