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Position Paper Topic A
School: Colegio
Ingles
Delegate:
Fernanda Lozano
Committee: ECOSOC
Country:
Afghanistan
Topic: Strengthening
crime prevention and criminal justice responses to violence against women
Violence
against women and girls is one of the major problems worldwide. It is defined
as any act of violence towards women that results in physical, sexual or
psychological harm of suffering to women, including threats of such acts, and
persuade deprivation of liberty. Globally about six of every ten women
experience physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime. The World Bank
study on ten said that these problems or risk factors that girls and women are
facing are more dangerous than cancer, motor vehicle accidents, war and
malaria. Intimate partner violence and sexual violence can lead to unintended
pregnancies, gynecological problems, abortion, and sexually transmitted
infections, such as HIV. These forms of violence also cause depression; insomnia,
eating disorders, and emotional distress with are lead to suicide attempts.
Some of the causes of these problems are being a victim of violence, low
education, witnessing child maltreatment and parental violence, and harmful use
of alcohol and drugs. The UN secretary general in 2006 said that 89 countries
have some legislation on domestic violence and more countries had taken action.
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
or CEDAW also described as the international bill of women’s rights, has taken
action to stop violence against women. The UN women also help with the
development of national human rights frameworks, with CEDAW, such as
constitutions, laws and polices. Also the Beijing Platform for Action, is
helping in the united nations with the equality of men and women, and specially
women’s rights. The crime consequences to this problem deeply depend on the
constitution or law of each country.
In
Afghanistan violence against women is and has been one of the major problems
for a long time, we don’t know when this started. Since the Taliban by U.S.-led
forces in 2001 the promotion of women’s rights have been attached to military
intervention. Many commentators have suggested for the military to do the
necessary to safeguard women’s gains, but many people in Afghanistan specially
women believe that it will be impossible for girls and women to consolidate
their gains, and heal not only physically but also emotionally in a militarized
environment. The violence against women, and the climate of insecurity makes
afghan women and girls feel powerless, especially those who have experienced
violence in their witness, or that have been widowed, displaced, trafficked and
forced into marriages, as a direct or indirect result of the conflict. In
Afghanistan there are organizations such as NGO’s Women for Afghan Women, they
provide shelter and food to women who are forced to flee their homes and
families due to violence acts. Afghan criminal law outlines does act to these
problem, however they are rarely prosecuted or punished, in fact due to women
being treated as property, they often are punished instead of the perpetrator.
In Afghanistan the creation of the Violence Against Women Unit (VAW) within the
Attorney General’s Office of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan really helped
in the seeking for justice to women victims of violence, however the problem
still surrounds Afghanistan.
Some solutions may be to talk to different countries for them to implement
criminal laws and procedure. Also really sentencing and punishing the perpetrator, and implement victim support and
assistance, by health and social services, since types of violence against
women like rape can bring sexual transmitted diseases. This will be done by an
international meeting, and convincing them will not be a problem since this is
an international problem, also have prevention measures, school-based programs
for adolescents to prevent violent relationships. This is one of the best evidence for effectiveness for intimate partner
violence. Also conferences for families, to prevent violence within family and
children maltreatment, because this is one of the main causes for violent
actions in the future. Be sure that women have equal protection under the law
and access to justice as any citizen. Implement centers where victims can
recover in a good way, not only physical but also physiologically.
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