Violence Prevention in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Finding a Place on the Global Agenda: Workshop Summary (2008) / Chapter Skim
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8 Opportunities and Challenges for U.S. Agencies and Organizations to Focus on Violence Prevention in Developing Countries
8 Opportunities and Challenges for U.S. Agencies and Organizations to Focus on Violence Prevention in Developing Countries
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workshop to interact with the people who can influence policy, programming, and funding on all kinds of issues that can relate to violence prevention. Unlike the previous sessions, the representatives from these agencies and organizations presented a brief overview of their organizational activity related to domestic and international violence prevention, followed by a dialogue around questions posed by the moderator.
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conducting demographic and health surveys, particularly for the issues of female genital cutting and domestic violence to support accurate data collection; (2) providing grants for building global capacity to address violence prevention and
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In the area of i nsecurity, Blount stated that it is clear to CDC that violence breeds chaos and chaos breeds violence. Additionally, it recognizes the impact of violence on economic growth in developing countries and therefore the impact on commerce and trade for the global community, including the U.S.
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In 2004, it supported another WHO publication The Economic Dimensions of Interpersonal Violence, which it hopes will be a key step to speaking the language of decision m akers, particularly ministers of finance, who will be making the important investments in violence prevention at a national level. To develop and test prevention strategies, proven and promising prevention practices in the WHO handbook are currently being piloted in a number of countries.
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Holly Burkhalter of the International Justice Mission (IJM) , a faithbased nongovernmental organization based in the United States, described its function as a law firm for poor people by providing free legal assistance to victims of violent abuse and injustice.
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The larger implications of successful prosecution of many child prostitution cases, which are basically economic crimes since sex trafficking is a "money maker" accompanied by debt bondage and enforced labor, may force adjustments in the brothel community and among traffickers. In the area of child prostitution in Cambodia where IJM has been involved the longest, it has helped bring 85 cases to conviction with serious jail time.
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He encouraged participants to think about what kinds of resources, expertise, knowledge, research, and evidence these inward-looking, domestically oriented agencies might be able to bring to bear on international issues if the agencies were statutorily licensed and directed -- not just encouraged, but ordered or expected -- to think and act globally. ROUND-ROBIN QUESTIONS WITH THE PANELISTS The panelists were engaged in dialogue with questions posed by the moderator, based on the assumption that agencies would need larger budgets but that this issue would not be the premise of the questions.
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She also stated that the human rights community has not looked to national governments and local public justice systems and judiciaries as a form of deterrence and protection. Rather, her lifelong experience in the human rights field, until now, has been that the authorities are the source of human rights abuses, and in some of the countries where IJM works, this is indeed the case.
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Hill predicted that to successfully engage lawyers and police to do what they should or lawmakers to put the right laws in place, need to aggressively attack the issue of changing male norms -- which is an example of pushing ahead on several fronts simultaneously. In response to the query of authorization to work in the area of violence prevention, Dr.
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Hill proposed the adoption of more inclusive strategies to address gender-based violence in both male and female behaviors and norms in several contexts. These contexts include health, human rights, educational needs of women and children, and participatory civil society.
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Ms. Burkhalter replied that she would like to see the kind of rigor that was developed in the HIV/AIDS treatment movement and response applied to the kind of human rights interventions and infrastructure development that is required in judiciaries in poor countries.
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While there seemed to be agreement on this notion, it was emphasized that a common agenda and strategy for violence prevention does not have to obliterate the differences between dealing with self-directed violence and other-directed violence: that is, between treating suicide as an illness of the brain, and requiring a criminal justice response and prevention work for issues of sexual violence and partner violence. It was suggested that this is one of the challenges of this workshop and figuring out how to use the subsequent summary to build this common agenda, while still respecting the individual differences that each of our agencies and perspectives brings.
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The last question addressed the issue of ignoring the data about self-directed violence by asking about the potential impact of the Wellstone bill for mental health parity and the president's New Freedom Commission report on the need to transform the mental health system of the United States. The response indicated that there are a great number of people in the mental health workforce, but the majority of them are not trained to do anything that has an evidence base to it.
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