Advocacy to reduce violence against women and girls:

roles of knowledge management in Thai policy process

Niyada Kiatying-Angsulee, Ph.D.Advisor, Executive Board of Social Research

Institute, Chulalongkorn University24 November 2012

Outline

• Scenario worldwide• Violence against women and girls in Thailand• The move for policy process• Triangle that move the mountain

Scenario worldwide (1)

Domestic Violence Against Women: Systematic Review of Prevalence Studies (2010)

PL = Physical ViolenceEL = Emotional ViolenceSL = Sexual violence

Domestic Violence Against Women: Systematic Review of Prevalence Studies (2010)

Scenario worldwide (2)PL = Physical ViolenceEL = Emotional ViolenceSL = Sexual violence

WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence against women

• WHO multi country project indicated that violence by a male intimate partner "domestic violence" is widespread in all 10 countries of this study.

• Physical and sexual partner violence against women is concerned.

http://www.who.int/gender/violence/who_multicountry_study/en/

Violence against women and girls in Thailand

Woman Injecting Drug User: Second discrimination

• 18 year old Bang was on drugs when she fell pregnant. Her family is very poor, without even a refrigerator in their house, and from a small village in Ubon. After she gave birth Bang couldn’t breastfeed because of medical reasons. Her only option was to try and find money to buy formula milk for her baby. She is still in this situation (July 2012). We, along with the help of some students on the YWAM Ubon DTS, have provided blankets, towels, shirts and enough formula to last for a month. We also donated some breast milk. However, it is a daily struggle for Bang to take care of her daughter because of her condition. She is in need of much support and understanding.

Teen pregnancy as an example of violenceThai 15-19 pregnancy rate 2nd highestBKK Post Published: 14/02/2011 Online news: Local News • Thailand has the second highest rate of mid-late teenage pregnancy in the

entire world, …• About 70 Thai women out of every 1,000 aged 15-19 - or about 7% - already

have children, • World Health Organisation figures show the global average number of

pregnancies for every 1,000 girls in the 15-19 age group is 65. In Asia it is 56, but it rises to 70 in Thailand.

… some 400,000 women in Thailand annually undergo illicit abortions

Living Positively: The Experiences of Thai Women Living With HIV/AIDS in Central Thailand

• Learning About HIV-Positive Status• Living Positively: Dealing With the Illness• Living Positively: Constraints

• Sex worker as an example of violence• Child abuse • Migrant workers• … More and more….

The move for policy process

• Health Sector Responses to Violence against Women in Thailand (Curation)

• Educational Response (Prevention)• ???

Triangle that moves the mountain

Prof. Prawase Wasi

Knowledge Management

• Prevalence and seriousness

• Causes and factors• Prevention and curative• Holistic approaches• PROMISING PRACTICES

IN DIFFERENT SECTORS AND SETTINGS

• Suffering

• Causes of suffering• How to reduce suffering• Path to reduce

Violence against Women: The Health Sector Responds Chapter One - Gender-Based Violence: A Public Health and Human Rights Problem

Situation and causes

http://www.endvawnow.org/uploads/browser/files/genderequality_vaw_leaflet_en_web.pdf

The Campaign

• "UNiTE to End Violence Against Women" Campaign

• “SAY NO” to Violence Against Women• the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence

against Women in ASEAN (2004)

Campaign by the Princess

We would like to be one voice to stop violence against women

Talk about sex

References• WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence

against women: initial results on prevalence, health outcomes and women's responses.

• UN Women In cooperation with ESCAP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF and WHO Expert Group Meeting - Prevention of violence against women and girls, Bangkok, Thailand 17-20 September 2012

Thank You