The “Know Your Rights” marketing campaign to cease Gender Based mostly Violence in Saint Lucia was formally launched throughout a press convention on the French Ambassador’s residence on Tuesday.
This nationwide communication marketing campaign goals to boost consciousness among the many public, and extra particularly amongst girls and younger women in Saint Lucia, who’re victims of violence.
It can be crucial for them to know their rights in reference to Saint Lucia’s enactment of the brand new part of the Home Violence Act of 2022, a progressive regulation designed to step up the struggle towards home violence and supply authorized and security assist for survivors.
Within the midst of 16 days of activism, the marketing campaign will run for six months till June 2024, utilizing quite a lot of communication instruments and media: billboards, info kits, debates on TV and radio programmes, social media, and so on. The second spotlight of the marketing campaign shall be Worldwide Ladies’s Rights Day on March 8, 2024.
The Cease Gender-Based mostly Violence in Saint Lucia venture is a public initiative funded by the Republic of France via the French Embassy in Saint Lucia and was launched in Might 2023.
The venture is carried out in shut collaboration with the Ministry for the Public Service, Residence Affairs, Labour and Gender Affairs and particularly the Gender Division. The principle goal of this venture is to strengthen the capacities of the Saint Lucia state and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), of their struggle towards Home Violence.
Home violence holds a major societal stigma in Saint Lucia, main victims to hesitate reporting abuse by their shut companions or relations. Violence towards girls is to not be taken frivolously within the Caribbean: In accordance with UN Ladies, nearly one in two girls have skilled not less than one type of violence in her lifetime within the area and nearly half of Caribbean girls (46 per cent) have skilled not less than one type of intimate accomplice violence. Worldwide, the determine is 30 per cent.
This initiative presents an opportunity to highlight the varied avenues accessible to victims, together with shelters, a nationwide hotline, formal complaints, restraining orders, authorized help through authorized assist, psychosocial assist offered by CSOs and extra sources.
Gender-based violence is a violation of human rights and a major barrier to reaching gender equality. France, as a proponent of human rights and gender equality, acknowledges the significance of addressing this situation. By supporting tasks to fight gender-based violence, the French Embassy contributes to the worldwide effort to create safer and extra equal societies for all people, no matter their gender.
At the moment, France stands because the foremost international financier of feminist organizations. President Macron’s announcement in 2019 launched the Assist Fund for Feminist Organizations, which is about to obtain €250 million over a span of 5 years ranging from 2023.
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