http://www.crin.org/docs/Gender_based_sexual_Violence.pdf

In Arabic

A report by Save the Children Sweden entitled Gender Based Sexual Violence Against Teenage Girls in the Middle East presents a comparative situation analysis of honour violence, early marriages and sexual abuse in Lebanon, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Yemen.

The 173-page report presents the following four titles:
1- A new approach: gender-based sexual violence as a violation of the convention on the rights of the child
2- Modernization in a multi regional society: sexual violence against female teenagers in Lebanon
3- Political instabitity and nation building: sexual violence against female teenagers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
4- Development struggles versus poverty and traditions: sexual violence against female teenagers in Yemen

It concludes with a one-page chapter titled "The Future: how we will combat sexual violence against children", suggesting that Save the Children and its local partners should acknowledge the importance of girl's right to eduction in order to combat sexual violence, thus setting up and lobby for implementing best- practices to make access for school possible for girls. SC and its partners should also carry out and facilitate training of professionals on how to set up structures that prevent sexual violence to the largest extent possible; build the capacity of professionals so that they can detect and support children, who have been, or are exposed to sexual violence; and produce material for teachers, social workers, and other adults on how to teach children about their rights to protection.

Read: IRIN's report about early marriage in Yemen 

Further information:
CRIN's page on civil society and UN study on violence against children
Middle East and North Africa in the UN study on violence against children

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Organisation Contact Details:

Save the Children Sweden - Regional Office for Middle East and North Africa
PO Box 113-7167
Beirut
Tel: + 9611 738654 - 5
Email: info@scsmena.org
Website: www.scsmena.org

Last updated 07/04/2008 04:48:08

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