End Violence Against Women and Girls

The HIAS Foundation supports HIAS in its work to help women and girls access their full potential and live free from violence by supporting survivors, mitigating risks, and engaging communities in change.

HIAS provides vital services to help end violence against women and girls. (SideXSide for HIAS)

Overview

HIAS works with communities to ensure women and girls are safe, healthy, and protected from sexual and physical violence. Our anti-violence programming for women and girls focuses on reducing the risk of sexual exploitation and violence, trafficking, domestic violence, and other types of violence experienced by forcibly displaced women and girls and other groups. We believe everyone has a role to play in keeping women and girls safe, so we engage entire communities — men, women, boys, and girls — in this work. These lifesaving programs ensure all survivors of sexual or physical violence can access services and improve their safety and overall wellbeing amidst extremely challenging circumstances.

This approach enables HIAS to:

  • Recognize the strength of all survivors.
  • Meet the safety, health, psychosocial, legal, and economic needs of survivors.
  • Connect survivors to lifesaving healthcare, psychosocial support, and justice.
  • Work with communities to challenge attitudes and behaviors that normalize sexual and physical violence against women and girls.

Strategies

HIAS’ life-changing anti-violence programs provide survivors of, and women and girls vulnerable to, sexual and physical violence with the resources to find support, build resilience, and heal. Our anti-violence programming focuses on three main strategies: risk reduction, response, and prevention. This includes:

  • Reducing the risk of violence by providing women and girls with safe spaces, education, financial literacy, economic asset-building, and peer support.

  • Supporting survivors’ wellbeing through case management, psychosocial services, and referrals to essential services and safe spaces.

  • Addressing the root causes of violence against women and girls through family-based interventions and programs for men and boys to reflect on attitudes that contribute to or condone violence.

Countries

Aruba
Chad
Costa Rica
Colombia
Ecuador
Greece
Guyana
Honduras
Kenya
Mexico
Moldova
Panama
Peru
Ukraine
United States
Venezuela

Impact

Economic empowerment helps stop violence against women

A close collaboration in Ecuador between HIAS and UN Women promotes economic empowerment as an effective strategy to prevent violence against women and girls.

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Marielis, a Venezuelan woman who fled her country and her violent partner, received training through the Caminando project. She says her dream is to have a successful business and bring her parents to Ecuador. (Luis Felipe Camacho)

In Ecuador, HIAS and UN Women have worked closely on the Caminando project that promotes economic empowerment and women’s rights as an effective strategy to eliminate violence against women and girls. (HIAS Ecuador)

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