3. Gender based violence Trafficking FGM Intimate Partner Violence
Child Marriage
Sexual Violence
Trafficking
Violence against girls in school
Domestic Abuse
Murder
Forced Prostitution
Infanticide
Prenatal sex selection
Sexual
Slavery
Systemic Rape
[as reading slide]
To be honest, I couldn’t get all the manifestations of GBV onto this slide
And that, in and of itself, is an indication of the reach and the complexity of this issue
physical
financial
emotional
psychological

5. 1 in 3 women, globally, will experience That’s one billion women
gender based violence in her lifetime.
That’s one billion women
around the world.

7. Gender relations
The 1993 the UN General Assembly recognised that
“violence against women is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women”
UN declaration on the elimination of violence against women
In fact the UN…

8. Government figures suggest 1 in 4 women in the UK will suffer abuse
[at the hands of a man]
at some point in her lifetime.

9. the best statistics we have suggest that rates of abuse in UK churches
don’t differ significantly
from that national average

10. 2 Corinthians 5:18-19
“All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation”.

11. Dignity- three objectives
Challenging our own churches
Challenging flimsy frameworks to affect systemic change
Challenging overseas partner organisations

18. Has replaced Link Up as the relationship programme with BMS for Baptist churches.
So, why did we change?
It began with a survey in 2011.
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19. It costs £286,000 each year to support our
justice ministries.
For £32 you can enable our ministries in
Mozambique and India for half a day.
Could you partner with us on a monthly basis?