Preventing and responding to sexual violence against women with disabilities
Programme: Rights, Equality and citizenship Programme
Lead: Anziani e non solo (Italy)
Partners:
ENSA - European Network of Social Authorities (Italy)
EDRA Social Cooperative Activities for Vulnerable Groups (Greece)
Fundacion Intras (Spain)
Safe Space Associação Saúde Mental (Portugal)
EUROCARERS (belgium)
SOCIALINIU INOVACIJU FONDAS (Lithuania)
Universidad de Porto (Portugal)
Topic and objectives:
The focus is on the prevention of and responses to sexual harassment, including cyber-harassment. The concept of "sexual harassment" refers to any form of unwanted verbal, non-verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, with the purpose or effect of violating the dignity of a person, in particular when creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment. Actions may address both physical or psychological offline and online harassment. Actions should focus on developing tools for reporting incidents: awareness raising amongst groups at risk (e.g. young adult social media users) and victims in order to educate about risks and rights, empower victims to report incidents and claim their rights; developing guidelines and manuals for specialised support services (e.g. in the workplace, schools, universities, online); and capacity-building for relevant professionals. Actions with a broader focus such as public awareness-raising to tackle prejudices and gender stereotypes and norms that encourage or condone sexual harassment may also be considered.