GAR ON INTENTIONAL HOMICIDE OF WOMEN
According to ICCS-International Classification of Crime for Statistical purposes, intentional homicide is defined as the “Unlawful death inflicted upon a person with the intent to cause death or injury”.
Some national governments, international organizations, academics and advocates of women’s rights use the term “femicide” to refer to the intentional homicide of women. Nevertheless, some aspects of the gender-related killing of women are indisputable, one being that this type of homicide is part of female homicide, yet not all female homicides are gender-related. Therefore only a specific, if considerable, share can be labelled “gender-related killings of women and girls, i.e, femicide”.
The correlation between the number of people affected by disaster and the femicide rate was found to be the highest in central and South Asia, followed by East and Southeast Asia.
FEMICIDES IN AFFECTED AREAS:
• Violence against women and girls increases in the aftermath of disasters and at the extreme end of the scale, this even takes the form of intentional homicides.
• The Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022(GAR 2022) builds on the analysis of United Nations-mandated SDG(Sustainable Development Goals) data on increased gender-based violence in disasters.
• The additional socioeconomic and psychological stresses of disasters on affected people increase vulnerability through indirect social impacts.
• The undermine coping capacity, social cohesion and well-being have a disproportionate impact on women and girls.
• The increase in gender-based violence during disaster displacement and slow-onset disasters was a key concern at the global level, in regions such as Asia and the Pacific, as well as in various countries such as wildfires in Australia, cyclones in Bangladesh and floods-hurricanes in the United States.
• Disasters also fuel human trafficking, which has a strong gender dimension.
• An analysis of available SDG data demonstrates a strong relationship between disaster affectedness and the number of detected female victims of human trafficking.
• Research in Australia and the United States has also used similar methods to the model for a significant increase in domestic violence, marital breakdown, suicide, and drug addiction following major disasters like wildfires.
• In India, in the coastal states like West Bengal, and Odisha which is experiencing a series of floods and cyclones brought on by the impacts of climate change, there are increasing instances of displacement and migration, making people more vulnerable to trafficking.
• According to recent studies, the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns and associated economic losses on urban populations found a high correlation between these stresses and violence within the home, as well as depression and anxiety, affecting women and people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities.
• There is a shadow pandemic of gender-based violence globally during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Emerging data shows an increase in calls to domestic violence helplines in many countries since the outbreak of COVID-19.
• Globally even before the COVID-19 pandemic began, 1 in 3 women experienced physical or sexual violence mostly by an intimate partner.
• The Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022(GAR 2022) builds on the analysis of United Nations-mandated SDG(Sustainable Development Goals) data on increased gender-based violence in disasters.
• The additional socioeconomic and psychological stresses of disasters on affected people increase vulnerability through indirect social impacts.
• The undermine coping capacity, social cohesion and well-being have a disproportionate impact on women and girls.
• The increase in gender-based violence during disaster displacement and slow-onset disasters was a key concern at the global level, in regions such as Asia and the Pacific, as well as in various countries such as wildfires in Australia, cyclones in Bangladesh and floods-hurricanes in the United States.
• Disasters also fuel human trafficking, which has a strong gender dimension.
• An analysis of available SDG data demonstrates a strong relationship between disaster affectedness and the number of detected female victims of human trafficking.
• Research in Australia and the United States has also used similar methods to the model for a significant increase in domestic violence, marital breakdown, suicide, and drug addiction following major disasters like wildfires.
• In India, in the coastal states like West Bengal, and Odisha which is experiencing a series of floods and cyclones brought on by the impacts of climate change, there are increasing instances of displacement and migration, making people more vulnerable to trafficking.
• According to recent studies, the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns and associated economic losses on urban populations found a high correlation between these stresses and violence within the home, as well as depression and anxiety, affecting women and people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities.
• There is a shadow pandemic of gender-based violence globally during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Emerging data shows an increase in calls to domestic violence helplines in many countries since the outbreak of COVID-19.
• Globally even before the COVID-19 pandemic began, 1 in 3 women experienced physical or sexual violence mostly by an intimate partner.
The negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on social and economic development have created disproportionate vulnerability and exposure for women and girls, all of which undermine efforts to achieve the 2030 agenda as well as regional agendas.
Women play a crucial role in scaling up disaster preparedness, bringing a wealth of knowledge, capacities and needs-based approaches to decision making.
