Lesson 10: Survivor, Victim, Perpetrator, & Human Rights Flashcards
is any harmful act that is perpetrated against a persons’ will and that is based on socially-ascribed (gender) difference between males and females (Inter-agency Standing Committee Guidelines for Integrating Gender-based Violence in Interventions in Humanitarian Action, 2015).
Gender-based violence (GBV)
include unwanted pregnancies, complications from unsafe abortions, sexually transmitted infections including HIV, injuries, mental health and psychosocial effects (depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, suicide, and death).
• Violence also affects children’s survival, development, and school participation.
health consequences
extend to families and communities. Families can be stigmatized.
social consequences
include cost of public health and social welfare systems and the reduced ability of many survivors to participate in social and economic life.
economic consequences
is the preferred term (not a “victim”) of a person who has
lived through an incident of gender-based violence.
survivor
is a person, group, or institutions that inflicts, supports, or condones violence or other abuse against a person or group of persons.
perpetrator
Characteristics of perpetrators include:
• Persons with real or perceived power;
• Persons in decision-making positions; and
• Persons in authority.
are universal, inalienable, indivisible, interconnected,
and interdependent (regardless of race, sex, language, political, etc.).
Human rights
• Prevention of and response to GBV is the protection of human rights. These include the following, among others:
• The right to life, liberty, and property of persons;
• The right to the highest attainable standards of physical and mental health;
• The right to freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment;
• The right to freedom of option and expression and to education (UNFPA, 2014)
