FEMINIST ACTIVISM TO END GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE

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FEMINIST ACTIVISM TO END GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE

12 Dec 2022

This separation of social life into the public and the private, and their association with the masculine and the feminine, has served to exclude women and other marginalised genders from participating in political and economic activity and decision-making. [...] In Mexico, following the feminicides in Juarez (see Box 3), a group of feminist academics and activists pushed for the recognition and incorporation of the term of feminicidio (feminicide)13 in national law, as well as for the creation of the Law on the Right of Women to a Life Free of Violence, passed in 2007 (Lagarde y de los Rios, 2012; Benitez Quintero and Vélez Bautista, 2018; Araiza et al.,. [...] In Kenya, the protests of #MyDressMyChoice led to the implementation of the Sexual Offences Act (2006), through which the perpetrators were prosecuted and convicted (Santos and Seol, 2015), as well as to the criminalisation of forcible stripping (ITDP, 2018). [...] As indicated in a survey by the International Domestic Workers Federation (cited in UN Women, 2019a), domestic workers are particularly vulnerable to GBV in their place of work because of the privacy of the domestic sphere, the lack of effective legal protection, poor access to services, the existence of discriminatory social norms against them and the lack of privacy for those who live with the f. [...] For example, the prevalence of GBV in the workplace in the UK rises from 50% to 66% for women between the ages of 18 and 24 (TUC and Everyday Sexism, 2016) and the number of women that have experienced sexual harassment and/or abuse increases from 53% to 68% for LGBTQ+ women (TUC, 2019).24 Moreover, in some cases, women and other marginalised genders may be either more vulnerable to profession- Th.
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