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India: Safety for Women!
India: Safety for Women!
Building a more just society: the Women's Fellowship of the Church of South India (CSI) empowers women and works towards gender equality.
Women and men in India have equal rights before the law. Yet the daily lives of many Indian women and girls are marked by discrimination, exploitation and domestic violence. Age-old traditions and gender roles are too firmly anchored in people's minds. The situation of women from low castes and ethnic minorities is particularly depressing. They find themselves at the bottom of the social hierarchy. Their opinions and views are barely taken into account, and their rights are often ignored.
Preventing structural violence
One of the many challenges Indian women face daily is structural violence. This includes all forms of discrimination, such as the unequal distribution of income, resources and educational opportunities. Structural violence does not automatically entail direct physical violence. But direct violence against women is always embedded in social and structural power relations that disadvantage women. The Women’s Fellowship of the Church of South India intends to improve social conditions for women, prevent structural violence and so put an end to violence against women. The Indian church bases its commitment on the UN Convention on the Rights of Women, the "Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women". It lobbies social and political stakeholders to promote its implementation and works continuously towards gender equality.
India
Domestic violence affects one in three women between the ages of 15 and 49.
Confronting direct violence
The most important target group are girls and women who cannot read or write and who have been victims of violence. In individual and group counselling sessions, the Women’s Fellowship of the Church of South India provides the vulnerable with pastoral care, informs them about their rights and teaches them measures to prevent violence. The CSI provides basic support, counselling and assistance to victims of violence. Special training programmes teach the girls and women how to better protect themselves from violence and how to build safe and respectful relationships. CSI helps women to realise their potential and build a life of equality and non-discrimination.
Project Goals
The Women's Fellowship of the Church of South India (CSI) supports women in their laborious struggle for equal rights and provides pastoral care to victims of violence. The Indian church bases its commitment on the UN Convention on the Rights of Women. The CSI intends to improve social conditions for women, prevent structural violence and so put an end to violence against women. The church provides basic support, counselling and assistance to victims of violence. In addition, the CSI is actively involved in prevention. Special training programmes teach the girls and women how to better protect themselves from violence.
Project Work
The Women’s Fellowship of the Church of South India intends to improve social conditions for women, prevent structural violence and so put an end to violence against women. It lobbies social and political stakeholders on behalf of women’s rights and works continuously towards gender equality. It offers ministry to victims of violence and is actively involved in prevention. Special programmes empower women to more self-confidence and strengthen their skills. This also includes education on human rights as well as state aid that can be claimed if these rights are ignored. Bible studies on the topic of gender justice also open new perspectives on the subject.
Project Partner
The Church of South India (CSI) is today the largest Protestant church in India with almost four million members in 24 dioceses and 15,000 parishes. This makes it one of the largest Protestant churches in Asia. The CSI runs kindergartens, schools, colleges, technical institutions and hospitals. The church is based in the large region covering the five southern states in India: Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The CSI is a united church integrating Reformed, Lutheran, Methodist and Anglican traditions.
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