Impact of Public Policy Legislations Against Gender-based Violence
Instructions
Identify one piece of legislation (legislative action) that impacts human services programs. Explain how the legislative action impacts the community, in relation to human services. In the explanation include economic, social, and diversity implications to the community.
Impact of Public Policy Legislations Against Gender-based Violence
Public Policy and Advocacy
Millions of women and girls around the world are victims of abuse and violence on a daily basis. Violence, according to the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (1993), is any act of gender-based violence that causes or threatens to cause physical, sexual, or psychological damage or distress to women, including assaults, harassment, or unlawful deprivation of liberty in public or private life.
In recent years, international laws such as the declaration on the elimination of violence against women as well as public policy legislations have been created mainly due to the concern for women…
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