About the project
Challenging Gender roles for Prevention of Trafficking is a joint Åland-Latvian project aiming at combating stereotypical gender perceptions at a grass-root level in order to undermine conditions for development of gender related violence, human trafficking and sexual slavery. The project is focusing on preventive work through empowerment of young girls and boys. The girl and boy group method is a Nordic model of direct work with young people aiming at strenghtening individuals, enhancing the participants’ possibilities to become active citizens and at the same time questioning prevailing gender stereotypes in order to achieve greater gender equality and a non-discriminatory setting for individual development. Within the project girl- and boy group leaders are trained and encouraged to start new groups both on Åland and in Latvia. A team of researchers are assessing the effects of the method on self-esteem and perceptions of gender roles and expectations among the participants. Another important part of the project is to inform the wider audience about the importance of making the links between empowerment, gender equality and gender based crime. The Project is carried out by the Åland Islands Peace Institute, Åland, Finland, and the Resource Center for Women, Marta, Riga, Latvia from October […]
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A day for the elimination of violence against women
Jeanette Mauricio is a journalist with studies in Human Right and Master’s degree in Feminism and Gender issues. Currently she is a doing the European Voluntary Service at The Peace Institute. The blog is written by the peace institute’s present or former staff, guest researchers, board members or invited guest writers. The opinions are the author’s own. The 25th of November is the International Day for the Elimination of the violence against women and Finland has reason to remind that day. When people think about violence against women, they think about countries where honour killings, when women are murdered in the name of family, trafficking or genital mutilation occur. But why we don’t look inside of this country? According to a publication from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health in 2008, in Finland around 21 women are murdered by their partner every year. 90% of all acts of interpersonal violence affect women. 43,5% of Finnish women has become subjected to physical or sexual violence or threat of violence at least once after the age of fifteen. In October of 2010 one Ålandic newspaper wrote that one in five women has experienced violence in an intimate relationship the last […]
Newsletter 25.11.2010
Newsletter from the Åland Islands Peace Institute 25.11.2010 Contents Manifestation against violence against women Bror Myllykoski new as Head of Administration Financial officer needed A volunteer for 2011 will be recruited The Newsletter 25.11.2010 can be downloaded here