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Activity Details (ID# 15482) |
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| Title: |
Addressing Gender-Based Violence affecting Young People |
| Description: |
Violence is a serious issue in the lives of many young people, and various types of violence inflict crushing damage on their well-being, integrity and life possibilities. Gender-based violence remains a key human rights challenge in contemporary Europe.
The term “gender” refers to the socially constructed roles of women and men which are attributed to them on the basis of their sex. Gender roles are learned and vary widely within and between cultures, moreover these roles are subject to constant change.
Violence is not a theoretical phenomenon; the experiences and stories recounted during the activities of the Human Rights Education Programme of the Directorate of Youth and Sport testify to the trauma, anger, fear, secrecy and helplessness that result from being confronted by violence. Furthermore, violence is not an abstract phenomenon; it must always be seen and understood in its context. Violence prevention work encompasses those types of physical violence that hinder self-realisation in very stark and obvious ways, but also verbal and psychological violence, institutional violence of different kinds, the socio-economic violence of marginalisation, poverty and multiple discriminations, and the hindering of self-realisation through rigid gender roles and expectations .
The training course “Developing competence of trainers to address gender-based violence affecting young people” is organised in order to support youth work in violence prevention and human rights education and to further develop non formal education techniques and approaches in dealing with gender-based violence.
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| Status: |
Completed |
| Date: |
11/09/2006 - 19/09/2006
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| Countries: |
All Council of Europe member states,
Council of Europe
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Programme:
(with external partner) |
CoE Programmes (PoA and VC) |
| Project: |
Youth promoting human rights and social cohesion (2006)
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| Location: |
European Youth Centre - Budapest, Hungary |
| CoE Contact: |
SCHNEIDER, Annette
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| Web Pages: |
1 http://www.eycb.coe.int |
| Last Modified: |
20/11/2006 |
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