25 NOVEMBER - INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: LET’S NOT FORGET WOMEN WITH PSYCHO-SOCIAL DISABILITIES25
The United Nations General Assembly has designated November 25th as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and it’s an opportunity to reaffirm the commitment of government, NGOs and citizens to fight all forms of discrimination and violence against women.
In this context, the partnership of the European-funded Stay Safe project calls for a specific attention to the challenges faced by women with psycho-social disabilities who are victims of gender-based violence, sexual violence and harassment.
According to researches, women with psycho-social disabilities, while having the highest risk to be victims of gender-based violence, are often unable to disclose violence or seek help.
The Stay Safe project intends to contribute to tackle these problems by implementing online and off-line interventions to raise awareness and educate women with disabilities to recognize and respond to sexual harassment and, in parallel, to train professionals working in the disability and GBV field on how to recognize the risks of sexual harassment to which women with psycho-social disabilities are exposed to and how to support them. The training resources are now available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Lithuanian and Italian to any interested parties, such as GBVs organizations and organizations working in the field of disabilities.
The project can be followed from www.staysafe.eu
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Note for editors:
Stay Safe is a 24 months European project funded by the European Union under the REC (Right, Equality and Citizenship programme).
It is implemented by an international partnership coordinated by ANS (Italy) and including: EDRA (GR), Safe Space and University of Porto (PT), SIF (LT), Intras (ES) and the European Network Eurocarers (BE).
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