Gender Based Violence, Help in Pakistan Floods :Recognize Issues then plan for action.

The GBV Sub-cluster aims to address both immediate humanitarian service delivery needs and action to prevent and respond to GBV, as well as longer-term development of services, systems, and structures to protect the affected population from GBV, with an emphasis on addressing the needs of women and girls. The Sub-cluster hopes to institutionalize existing GBV mechanisms, enhance them with global good practice, and help take them to scale.

In line with the global mission of the Protection Cluster, the Pakistan GBV Sub-cluster will facilitate a more predictable, accountable and effective protection response to GBV in the Pakistan Floods disaster response.

Gender-based violence is understood to encompass a range of harmful acts which are based on socially-ascribed gender differences. The different forms of GBV that may arise in the current context in Pakistan may include, but are not limited to: 

•       Physical violence: an act of physical violence that is not sexual in nature.  Examples include battering by husbands, mothers-in-law, etc., hitting, slapping, choking, cutting, shoving, burning, shooting or use of any weapons, acid attacks or any other act that results in pain, discomfort or injury.

•       Sexual violence: any form of non-consensual sexual contact.  Examples include rape (including in the context of marriage), sexual exploitation, forced prostitution and inappropriate touching.

•       Denial of resources, opportunities or services: denial of rightful access to economic resources/assets or livelihood opportunities, education, health or other social services. Examples include actors denying a woman humanitarian aid due to her gender, a widow prevented from receiving an inheritance or inheriting her husband’s land, earnings forcibly taken by a husband or other family member, a woman prevented from using contraceptives, a girl prevented from attending school, etc.  

•       Psychological/emotional abuse: infliction of mental or emotional pain or injury. Examples include: threats of physical or sexual violence, intimidation, humiliation, forced isolation, stalking, harassment, unwanted attention, remarks, gestures or written words of a sexual and/or menacing nature, destruction of cherished things, etc.

•       Forced and early marriage

•       Trafficking and abduction of women and girls

•       Harmful traditional practices such as honour killings

U Shahidi : Mapping hospitals in Honduras. Pakistan needs.

http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/09/27/honduras-hospitals/

Pakistan needs mapping activity like this urgent.

A Medical Camp at New Jatoi Basic Medical Unit by Offroaders, Pakistan.

An adventure club known as the offroaders organised a medical camp at new Jatoi, Moro where a number of persons are in severe need of medical help as the flood affectees are sitting on bunds nearby. This saw a 1000 patients  in a day and shows how a dedicated , sincere and committed team can help in relief  in a crises situation. Dr Awab's team that is known as the offroader's club which is an adventure club and has a wonderful membership of people with various backgrounds has been doing relief effort with distribution of food and goods at various places to flood affectees, recently. You can access all info here and organise your own team and work based on their experience. Pakistan needs massive health and crises infrastructure. It has limited resources and human , trained resource. Sindh especially needs massive mother and child support in health, social welfare and crises situation. Please form groups and teams and help.
http://teeth.com.pk/blog/2010/09/28/relief-mission-medical-to-moro-dadu

Crises Health And Support Group.

crises-health-and-support-group@googlegroups.com

The act of forgiving oneself creates an awareness that ultimately leads to self healing. If you learn to forgive, you can move on with your life. As most of us may find ourselves in situations and relationships that may remain unresolved and we are not able to enjoy life.
I am availalble at the above mentioned group for consultation and help you with a personal healing program.Please write in confidence.

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Recent Activity.

After many weeks a meeting was held in the seaview CPLC office with the residents and the new SP Clifton incharge of Clifton Town including Gizri Police station. The recent spate of dacoities was discussed by residents. Two cases one of kidnapping of a lady for ransom in which her driver was involved and a recent dacoity by a cook who was employed by the resident fo last 6 years was discussed.
Another case in which a highly influential,powerful Pir's son who took up many guards with guns against seaview residents to harass a person whose car was bieng vandalised by his son and who was just asking the son to refrain was also discussed.
The SP Mr. Tariq was of the view that without proper registeration of servants with the police they cannot very efficiently trace the culprits. He said that out of 6000 forms for registeration in phase 5 of Defence, he did not get any response.The CPLC seaview also has from time to time asked the residents to register the servants and drivers, chowkidars with police in order to curb crime but the response is equally poor. It seems that the residents do lack trust in police and think that they will make it a mechanism for corruption. This issue has to be solved somehow as registeration will definitely curb the activity of crime .The registeration can be done in a non-police forum as with residents' societies, clubs etc so that a record is available which will help in investigation.CPLC can be a focal ,lead group in this activity.
The seaview residents and those inDarakhshan and seafacing phase 6 should contact CPLC, seaview , for registeration. 03335327626,and the persons are available at sea view chowki every evening.
The issue about the threatening attitude of people of influence with their guards and guns to residents should be discussed with police higher ups at a level where they can approach the political government for support against such elements. The right of ordinary citizens to safeguard their property and home without threats to bieng killed by generally feudal, landed, rich and powerful should be safegurded and brought to light by media and human rights organisations.
There should be a provision in the residents society charter to take up this issue with administration and build public pressure against such individuals and groups.
The inability of the police to safeguard and side up with the citizen and remain silent in such cases will only be removed if they know that the societies and people will hold police higher ups accountable.
The cameras in entry and exit points of Defence as was planned has to be installed immediately for monitoring of crime.
Right now the main issue of servants' registeration should be solved as soon as possible.