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India: Violence Against Women
India: Violence Against Women
Gender-based violence continues to be prevalent in India. The Church of South India (CSI) wants to take responsibility. It sensitises and trains its own co-workers to create awareness for gender issues.
Violence against women is a major social challenge in India. Although women are legally equal to men, they frequently experience that they are treated like second-class citizens. Even within the Church of South India, there is still much to be done to raise awareness about this.
Gender-sensitive church
Gender justice will be the main theme of the CSI in 2023 and 2024. In the coming years, the church would like to contribute to continue building gender equality within Indian society, not only in and for the inner-church organisation, but also at parish level.
The Church of South India has realised that gender justice requires gender competence. That gender justice can only be effectively promoted if the people responsible have been sensitised to it and are also prepared to put it into practice. Awareness of the significance of gender-based violence against women and knowing methods to help those affected go hand in hand. Both are therefore the focus of training for ministers and church leaders.
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Domestic violence affects one in three women between the ages of 15 and 49.
Look – help –act
An extensive campaign is to be launched in the 24 dioceses of the CSI to raise awareness about violence against women. Church leaders and ministers will act as multipliers and transfer the knowledge they have gained to their parishes. Effective prevention also includes precise guidelines on the basis of which church institutions can develop concepts against gender-based violence. Prevention measures and support services for affected women and girls will then be formulated by local working groups. In individual and group counselling sessions, 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.
Project Goals
Promoting gender justice is the main theme for the Church of South India in 2023 and 2024. The church has realised that before gender justice can succeed, there is a need for gender competence. Gender justice can only be effectively promoted if church leaders are sensitised to it. The aim is to further develop and perpetuate gender justice within society, not only in and for the inner-church organisation, but also to act as a motivator for whole parishes.
Project Work
The Church of South India intends to improve social conditions for women, prevent structural violence and so put an end to violence against women. An extensive campaign is to be launched in the 24 dioceses in the five federal states in South India to create awareness of gender-based violence, mainly against women. Church leaders and ministers will act as multipliers and transfer the knowledge they have gained to their parishes. By setting up local working groups, the project aims to localise key action areas, prevent sexualised violence through preventive measures and offer victims of violence fast and unbureaucratic help.
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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