Awareness Raising on ―
Gender-based violence
Gender-based Violence (GBV) describes the specific type of violence that is linked to the ‘gendered’ identity of being a woman, man or a person with transgender identity. In order to understand the full meaning of the term GBV we need to first understand the meaning of the term gender.
“Gender-based violence (GBV) is the general term used to capture violence that occurs as a result of the normative role expectations associated with each gender, along with the unequal power relationships between the two genders, within the context of a specific society.”
when we talk about Gender base violence in Sri Lanka its mainly relating to Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based violence. Sri Lanka still lags behind in gender equality even as 51.8 per cent of the country’s total population are women, with only 35 per cent comprising its labour force, a recent study reveals Women play a very significant role in income generation in the migrant labour force, textile industry and plantation sector. Currently over 23.4 per cent households are headed by women. However, the proportion of seats held by women in the national parliament ‘remains very low’. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report ranked Sri Lanka 75th in Gender Inequality.
As a youth organization we believe it is our duty and role to create equal ground for the men as well as women. so we identify Gender – based violence as our main program area. we want to create awareness of youth in Sri lanka on gander based violence on below subjects areas,
• TO Understanding the concept of gender, gender stereotyping
• To Understanding GBV , magnitude of the issue and its of root causes
• TO play a practical role against Gender based violence
To achieve these goals, LYON will organize and initiates advocacy programs, debate campaigns, Media and social media campaigns and other relevant activities time to time.
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