Girl Up

Introdução

Podemos acabar com isso juntas

Ao oferecer espaços seguros para meninas, defender o acesso à educação de qualidade e aumentar a quantidade de professoras e mentoras, os clubes Girl Up estão cumprindo a missão de eliminar a violência de gênero no mundo todo.

1. 12 milhões

   de meninas do mundo todo são submetidas a casamentos infantis todos os anos

2. 1 em cada 5

   mulheres e meninas com idade entre 15 e 49 anos sofrem violência física ou sexual pelas mãos de um parceiro

3. 200 milhões

   de meninas e mulheres do mundo todo sofreram mutilação genital

Um caso já é demais

1 em cada 3 mulheres

Essa é a quantidade de meninas e mulheres que sofrerão violência de gênero em algum momento da vida. Esse número deveria ser zero. A violência de gênero, arraigada em normas de gênero e em relações de poder desiguais, compromete saúde, dignidade, segurança e autonomia de suas vítimas. É uma das violações de direitos humanos mais frequentes do mundo e não tem fronteiras sociais, econômicas nem nacionais.

Girl Up is so excited to announce its first ever gender-based violence curriculum, aimed to educate and spread awareness about GBV in communities around the world. This three-part curriculum will cover important topics like:

• Gender
• Sexuality
• Social Constructs
• Intersectionality of Inequalities
• Structures of Oppression

We hope this curriculum continues to educate and empower new and old Girl Up Club members as they work to reduce gender-based violence in their communities around the world. Check out the first section below and stay tuned for Sections 2 & 3 releasing early 2021!

1. 

   Section 1 covers Structures of Oppression

   Gender, Intersectionality of inequality, and Social Constructs

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2. 

   Section 2 covers Mechanisms of Oppression

   Beauty, Body Positivity, Hormones, Menstruation, Pink Consumption, Sexuality

3. 

   Section 3 covers Everyday Resistances

   Cyberbullying, Feminist Self-Defense, Role of Technology, Networking

Girl Up and the main authors of this curriculum wish to thank everyone who made this curriculum possible with their contributions, time and support. It was an honor to learn with and from you.

To all the girls and adolescents from Guatemala and around the world who participated in our Focus Groups to validate sections of this curriculum, thank you for your time and energy.

María Lucía Aldana

María José Aguilar Ponce

Andrea Aguilar and Adriana Gómez

Ana Bermúdez Fong and Liliana Zaragoza Cano

Libertad Sagüín

Vida Independiente Guatemala

Fundación Centro Bartolomé de las Casas, El Salvador

We’d also like to thank the following organizations that work with adolescents around the world and spoke to us in the interviews. Thank you for your time and for the work you do every day:

Azmina – Brazil

Girls Health Ed – Kenya and US

Feminist Voice – China

Peace Foundation – Africa

Population Council – Guatemala

Sayfty – India

UNFPA – Dominican Republic

O que está em jogo?

A violência de gênero atenta contra a dignidade humana de meninas e mulheres.

Gender-based violence affects girls and women in every community, in every corner of the world, yet it remains shrouded in a culture of silence. As advocates for the rights, skills, and opportunities of every girl, everywhere, Girl Up leaders are developing girl-led solutions to combat gender-based violence in their own lives and communities– from addressing campus sexual assault through advocacy and the creation of safe spaces, to developing tech solutions that build community awareness – but there is still so much more to do. Victims of gender-based violence can suffer immediate and long-term physical and emotional consequences, including forced and unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections including HIV, and even death.