{"id":790,"date":"2023-12-11T11:31:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T11:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genderstudies.uniben.edu\/?p=790"},"modified":"2023-12-11T11:31:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T11:31:45","slug":"16-days-of-activism-in-commemoration-of-the-international-day-for-the-elimination-of-violence-against-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genderstudies.uniben.edu\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"16 Days of Activism in Commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gender based violence (GBV) predominantly affects the female gender but is not exclusive to them. Violence and GBV in particular comes in various form such as , verbal, physical, psychological, socio-economic, domestic or intimate partner violence, sexual harassment\/violence etc and eliminating them will take the understanding of its forms as well as factors predisposing persons to being abusers or abused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These were part of issues discussed by the Director, Centre for Gender Studies, University of Benin, Prof. Adefunke Adekunle at the two day multi-stakeholders meeting organized by the European Union-Agents for Citizens Driven Transformation (EU-ACT)\/British Council in collaboration with the Society for Awareness and Family Initiative and the Edo State Ministry of Social Development and Gender Issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event held at Protea hotel, Benin on the 4th and 5th of December, 2023 attracted participants from Civil Society Organizations, Law enforcement agencies and other relevant government agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 16 days of activism for 2023, has as its theme; UNITE! 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Violence and GBV in particular comes in various form such as , verbal, physical, psychological, socio-economic, domestic or intimate partner violence, sexual harassment\/violence etc and eliminating them will take the understanding of its forms as well as factors predisposing persons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genderstudies.uniben.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genderstudies.uniben.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genderstudies.uniben.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genderstudies.uniben.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genderstudies.uniben.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genderstudies.uniben.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/genderstudies.uniben.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genderstudies.uniben.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genderstudies.uniben.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genderstudies.uniben.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genderstudies.uniben.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}