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The Emergent Movement to Connect Extreme GBV and Trafficking as Non-State Torture
When most people think of torture, they think of violence perpetrated during war or conflict by armies or agents of the state on combatants. Though it is not common to call out gender based violence as torture; frequently, it is exactly that. Gender-based violence, particularly domestic and sexual violence, is the world’s most prevalent crime against women. Because this violence usually occurs in private, rather than by state actors, the level of abuse and terror experienced by victims is minimized and obscured.
Tactics of extreme coercive control in intimate partner violence should be recognized as torture under UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) based on interpretations by international courts and the definition provided in the Rome Statute. In this groundbreaking conversation we will revisit the concept of torture as it relates to gender-based violence, and speak with those leading an emergent movement to recognize and treat domestic violence as non-state torture.
Presenters: Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald, co-authors of Women Unsilenced, Our Refusal to Let Torturer-Traffickers Win, Silvia Marino, UN Working Group On Gender-Based Violence as Inflicted by Non-State Actors
Moderator: Vayuna Gupta, Legal and Policy Advisor, Global Rights for Women
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By Global Rights for WomenWhen most people think of torture, they think of violence perpetrated during war or conflict by armies or agents of the state on combatants. Though it is not common to call out gender based violence as torture; frequently, it is exactly that. Gender-based violence, particularly domestic and sexual violence, is the world’s most prevalent crime against women. Because this violence usually occurs in private, rather than by state actors, the level of abuse and terror experienced by victims is minimized and obscured.
Tactics of extreme coercive control in intimate partner violence should be recognized as torture under UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) based on interpretations by international courts and the definition provided in the Rome Statute. In this groundbreaking conversation we will revisit the concept of torture as it relates to gender-based violence, and speak with those leading an emergent movement to recognize and treat domestic violence as non-state torture.
Presenters: Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald, co-authors of Women Unsilenced, Our Refusal to Let Torturer-Traffickers Win, Silvia Marino, UN Working Group On Gender-Based Violence as Inflicted by Non-State Actors
Moderator: Vayuna Gupta, Legal and Policy Advisor, Global Rights for Women