1:45 PM Group Picture with all the participants 2:00 PM End of seminar A Narrative report on the activity: Making Data work for women: Mapping of legal referral mechanism on GBV with Group discussion with different service providers I. INTRODUCTION Gender-based violence is a phenomenon deeply rooted in gender inequality, and continues to be one of the most notable human rights violations within all societies. Gender-based violence is violence directed against a person because of their gender. Both women and men experience gender-based violence but the majority of victims are women and girls. Gender-based violence and violence against women are terms that are often used interchangeably as it has been widely acknowledged that most gender-based violence is inflicted on women and girls, by men. However, using the ‘gender-based’ aspect is important as it highlights the fact that many forms of violence against women are rooted in power inequalities between women and men. Since Gender-based violence is one of the priority issues of the Commission of Human Rights, they think of ways to reach out to municipalities to make research/to map current legal referral mechanisms used by service providers, thus this seminar became their instrument.

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