CPAU's experience dealing with different types of violence at various levels:
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Violence Types
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Levels
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Physical Violence
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Cultural Violence
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Structural Violence
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Family
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- beating
- child labour/forced labour
- calling names
- intimidation
- imprisonment
- depriving from food
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- deprivation of girls from education
- not allowing children to express their ideas
- unhealthy cultural values and traditions
- superstitions
- preference of boy vs girls
- men can get easily married for the 2nd & 3rd times
- taunting language
- Notion of son/daughter in law
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- spirit of indifference
- lack of freedom to express self opinions
- denying rights related to others
- poverty at the family level
- only one person as income earner
- malnutrition
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Schools
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- beating
- use of sticks (most often and normally)
- calling name
- torture
- punishment
- sexual harassment/power abuse
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- messages of hatred
- top-down teaching approach
- students as objects
- No room for students participation
- prejudice and discrimination
- taunting language
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- texts full of violence messages
- heavy subjects beyond understanding of students
- unilateral made carricula
- no school facilities for all
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Community/society
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- intimidation
- sexual abuse
- power abuse
- kidnapping
- killing
- beating
- torture
- isolation
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- forced marriages
- excessive expenses for wedding and condolence ceremonies
- not allowing women and children in decision making
- ethnic discrimination
- difference between man & woman
- taunting language
- deprivation of women from their inheritance rights
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- indifference to public assets
- poverty
- exploitation by those ceasing power (landlords and farmers)
- no domestic laws
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National
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- fighting
- killing
- arrest
- beating
- torture & amputation
- human rights abuse and grave violation
- demolished residential areas
- sexual abuse and trafficking
- drug and smuggling
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- lack of free media
- discrimination in recruiting governmental employees
- low roles for women in the government and state positions
- poor are poor because of their fate
- selection vs election
- war and criminal economy
- not quality education
- taunting language
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- less chances for people to participate in social, cultural and political forums
- scourge of poverty
- inaccessibility to health and education facilities
- exploitation
- weak civil society with less influence
- unjust distribution of resources
- deprivation of people from their civil, economic, and political rights
- state building vs nation building
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