OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE - BUDAPEST
Network Women's Program

16 Days Media Campaigns to Combat
Violence Against Women

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«Society against the violence toward women»

 

The Union of Crisis Centers of Kazakhstan
"Dialog" Zheskazgan Center of Women Initiatives Support in Zheskazgan city
"Senim" Crisis Center in Uralsk city
"Umit" Crisis Center in Aktobe city

 

Project Description

As per data of Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan of 21st of February 2001 the following crimes were committed towards women in 2000 in the Republic of Kazakhstan:

Sort of Crime

Number of crimes in Almaty city in 2000

Number of crimes in Kazakhstan in 2000

1. Murder

64

532

2. Intended bodily harm

24

308

3. Intended bodily harm of middle degree

43

517

4. Intended bodily harm of trivial degree

9

181

5. Battery

-

1144

6. Torture

4

114

7. Rape

180

1034

8. Violent acts of sexual character

15

130

9. Fraud

393

1107

10. Abbrochment

887

3157

11. Brigandage

148

682

12. Extortion

6

120

But not all cases are registered at the law-enforcement authorities and mass media and the problem of violence toward women often is not of public discussion

According to the data of "Podrugi" Crisis Center

Data for 2000

Data for 5 month of 2001

Total number of calls

2036

737

Sort of violence :

Physical

447

197

Battery

80

36

Sexual

136

9

Financial

359

86

Psychological

791

190

 

The General Assembly of UNO has adopted the Resolution in 2000 about recognition of 25 of November as the International Day of Liquidation of Violence toward Women.

The outcomes of the telephone calls analyses and appeals of Crisis Centers of Kazakhstan gives us the ground to establish the fact that the violence toward women has a tendency to increase. This Project will allow to interact with the stuff of Crisis centers of Kazakhstan and journalists of Almaty and regional mass media as well as to attract the people of Kazakhstan, law-enforcement authorities, governmental structures, international organizations.

According to the analysis of the campaign «16 days without violence», which was held by the "Podrugi" Crisis Center from 25 November to 10 December 2000 it may be noted that the positive moments of this campaign were the following: showing of social films on the local channels has influenced on the people by their actuality. Mass media has informed about plans and course of the company. The regional crisis centers of Kazakhstan from Almaty, Taldykorgan, Uralsk, Aktau, Petropavlovsk, Leninogorsk, Tekeli, Zheskazgan, Aktobe were involved into social Gallup poll. The posters of the competitions «Women against violence» are used in the seminars АВА СЕЕLI and “Podrugi” Crisis Center.

Also we have got a good lesson, that we need time for the profound preparative work for the campaign.

The campaign «Society against violence toward women» will be organized as a traditional one and the preparation for this campaign will be conducted during the whole year.

This campaign is the next stage of the long-term program of the Crisis Centers of Kazakhstan. (see Attachment 1 and Attachment 2)

The participants of the campaign «Society against violence toward women» are the stuff of the Union of Crisis Centers of Kazakhstan (29), "Dialog" Zheskazgan Center of Women Initiatives Support in Zheskazgan city (5), «Senim» Crisis Center in Uralsk city (7), «Umit» Crisis Center in Aktobe city (4), target group, people of Kazakhstan, journalists of regional and local mass media, students, last year pupils, volunteers (approx. 120 people).

Goal of Project:

To change the attitude to the gender violence in the society through increasing the importance of mass media, Crisis Centers of Kazakhstan and governmental authorities.

Main concept of the project:

  • Efforts consolidation of the Crisis Centers of Kazakhstan, mass media, governmental structures in order to provide support to the victims of violence and their rehabilitation.

  • Increasing of public awareness

  • Information distribution among the people about the scope, grounds and consequences of violence toward women with the help of mass media and conducting campaign.

  • Formation of social consciousness against violence on the basis of sexual characteristics

  • Information of non-violence behavior in the society

  • Motivation of the government in the changing the legislation with the aim of preventing the gender violence

  • Acknowledgement of violence toward women as a crime

 

Campaign «Society against violence toward women» is designated toward:

Target group

Activity

Victims of violence

 

  1. To organize the action «Day of Telephone Call» in the following cities: Almaty, Taldykorgan, Uralsk, Aktau, Petropavlovsk, Leninogorsk, Zhaskazgan, Aktobe. At that day it is expected to get calls about facts of violence and references on campaign. It is proposed to place the announcement about this campaign in the following newspapers: Atbashar, Karavan, Is ruk v ruki, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, Vremja, Panorama.

  2. To organize and to conduct the action in collaboration with Kazakhstan-1 of radio-broadcasting «Liquidation of legal illiteracy».

  3. To show the social short movies Podrugi is always next to you and Make your own choice on the КТК TV channel, Khabar, South Capital, Rakhat TV channels in Almaty and in the cities of Kazakhstan such as Taldykorgan, Uralsk, Aktau, Petropavlovsk, Leninogorsk, Zhaskazgan, Aktobe.

Aggressor

  1. To make in collaboration with Mass Media the Message to Strong half of Mankind. Your power is not in fist.

Youth                        

  1. To organize and to conduct the action in collaboration with journal for young people «Les Garsons» – disco «Aggression is not popular» with attraction of young people.

  2. To announce and make the competitions of drawings on the theme «The youth against violence» among the pupil of College of Arts.

  3. To organize and to conduct the mobile exhibition of drawings of the competition «The youth against violence» at office ABA CEELI, Soros Foundation of Kazakhstan and at the disco «Aggression is not popular» and at the final conference.

  4. To organize the action «Volunteer landing troops». To conduct with volunteers the open lessons on theme "Domestic Violence " among the pupils of senior classes at three schools of Almaty, Taldykorgan, Uralsk, Aktau, Petropavlovsk, Leninogorsk, Zhaskazgan, Aktobe.
  5. To place the insert "Safety: Yes or No" at the journal for youth «Les Garsons».

Governmental Structures: Akimat , policemen, hospitals, educational institutions, city Maslikhat.

  1. To conduct the social survey of policemen to reveal the view on Domestic violence problem

  2. To make a stand of the Crisis center Podrugi activities in model police offices of Almaty city

  3. To make a presentation of campaign at the office

Legislation body: Republic Mazhilis
  1. To conduct round-table on draft law "On Domestic violence" with the representatives of legislation body and governmental structures.

Society

  1. To work out and to put out the poster dedicated to this campaign: «Society against violence toward women», and spread it over the cities of Kazakhstan: Taldykorgan, Uralsk, Aktau, Petropavlovsk, Leninogorsk, Zheskazgan, Aktobe.

  2. To realize the TV report in collaboration with South Capital TV Channel about «Society against violence toward women»

  3. To organize the action «Informational Bridge» for sharing information and data about campaign through e-mail among Crisis Centers of Kazakhstan: Uralsk, Zheskazgan, Leninogorsk, Petropavlovsk, Taldykorgan, Aktau, Aktobe and Almaty.

  4. To organize and to conduct informal meeting with mass media at the round table on theme «Look of Woman in Mass Media» with participation of journalists of KTK channel, 31 TV channel, Les Garsons, South Capital, Kazakhstan-1, Khabar, Rakhatт, Panoramma

  5. To show the PSAs Podrugi is always next to you and Make your own choice on the КТК TV channel, Khabar, South Capital, Rakhat TV channels in Almaty and in the cities of Kazakhstan such as Taldykorgan, Uralsk, Aktau, Petropavlovsk, Leninogorsk, Zhaskazgan, Aktobe To make an action «report by the hot board» in collaboration with mass media, КТК, 31-channel, South Capital, Rakhat TV Channels.

  6. To conduct "Report at the hot stand" in collaboration with Mass Media TV: KTK, 31 Channel, Yuzhnaya Stolitsa, Rakhat.

  7. To prepare and to issue the special edition of informational bulletin dedicated to the campaign.

  8. To conduct the final conference on the outcomes of campaign «Society against violence toward women» and to give to the work group which is responsible for text of legislation draft «About Domestic Violence» the drafted propositions to this legislation draft.

 

Forms of monitoring

The monitoring will be carried out in the internal and external form. The internal monitoring will be conducted by the following co-workers of the crisis centers: N. Bagdashkina and A. Platonova as well as by the coordinator of the campaign «Society against violence toward women», and the external monitoring will be conducted by Danat Issayeva, Soros Foundation of Kazakhstan and Damira Sartbayeva, the council of UNIFEM on the gender issues.

The following materials will be furnished:

Video cassette with the report about the campaign «Society against violence toward women»» and the report by the hot board;

Monitoring of publications with the aim of showing up the look of women in mass media, press-cuttings;

The registration book of incoming calls and suggestions;

Opinion questionnaire about training;

Statistic data of police social survey;

Audio-records of action «Liquidation of legal illiteracy» on the radio;

Drawings from competitions and posters dedicated to campaign;

Photo-materials about campaign «Society against violence toward women»

Data of Informational Bridge;

Press-cuttings with the announcements about action «Day of Call», proposals to the legislation draft «On Domestic Violence»;

References of youth about action: the disco «Aggression is not popular»;

The final results of the round table, proposals to the legislation draft «About Domestic Violence»;

The report on the final results of the campaign «Society against violence toward women»

Project appraisal

After the action «Day of Call» the monitoring of incoming calls will be carried out and 409 call will be received on the hotline of crisis centers of Kazakhstan. It is expected that 310 telephone calls with references and facts about violence will be received at the crisis centers of other cities of Kazakhstan: Uralsk, Petropavlovsk, Taldykorgan, Aktau, Leninogorsk, Zhaskazgan.

Something about 10 000 people will watch the reporting about the campaign «Society against violence toward women» and will listen to "Liquidation of legal illiteracy" on the Kazakhstan-1 Radio.

Not less than 150 people will visit the mobile exhibition «Youth against violence» comprises the 15 drawings of the students from the College of Arts.

In the course of action "Informational Bridge" among the crisis centers of Kazakhstan through e-mail will be conducted the share of the following information: data on action "Day of telephone call" and on social survey of policemen, nearly 300 policemen of Almaty and 385 policemen of project participant cities will take part in this survey, references and proposals about campaign, proposals to the legislation draft «On Domestic violence». This information will be included into the special edition of informational bulletin dedicated to the campaign «Society against violence toward women».

In the monthly edition of the journal «Les Garsons» 1000 leaflets with the telephone numbers of crisis centers of Kazakhstan will be distributed and 2000 leaflets will be spreaded over the following cities of Kazakhstan: Uralsk, Petropavlovsk, Taldykorgan, Aktau, Aktobe, Leninogorsk, Zhaskazgan.

The PSAs "Podrugi is always next to you" and "Make your own choice" will be shown on the TV channels of Kazakhstan during 16 days for 7000 audience.

Not less than 250 young people as well as co-workers from the crisis centers, 21 volunteers, students – the participants of the competitions of the posters and mass media will be invited to the action " Aggression is not popular ".

Ten journalists, six representatives of the law-enforcement authorities as well as the representatives of non-for-profit organization, task group, international foundations, the representative of municipal Akimat will take part at the final conference. The exhibition of posters "Youth against violence" will take place at this conference.

The campaign «Society against violence toward women» will allow to involve and to increase the efforts of society and the mass media, governmental structures, legislation body, NGO, women victims of violence in fighting with the problem of domestic violence.