1. Forum 3: Violence Against Women
Frauenberatungsstelle Gladbeck eV
Ute Rösemann

2. Forum 3: Violence Against Women
Introduction of the Frauenberatungsstelle Gladbeck eV
NGO
5 part time workers (20h/w)
3 counsellors
1 community organizer
1 office worker
About 300 women each year
More than 1000 counselling sessions each year
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Women will not talk about their experience of violence, if they don’t get any kind of signal to do so
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Women are the experts for their own lives; expectations concerning how they should behave or act are inappropriate
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Highest priority has to be given to the protection and safety of women and their children
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We as a society are responsible to stop the assailant, not the women
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There is no protection of women without the protection of their children and vice versa
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Combating violence against women must be a joint effort of many partners in a community
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A financially secured and governmentally independent group (NGO) is best suited to address the issue of violence against women
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
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