Topic: Violence Against Women
Country: Netherlands
Delegate Name: Salmaan Seraji-Bozorgzad
School: Roeper School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Netherlands position papers GLIMUN 2018 committees
The United Nations defines violence against women as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life."
Women in the Netherlands are not treated the way the rest of the world thinks they are treated. By the age of 15 almost half of women in the Netherlands have been physically/sexually assaulted. An estimated 7.9 per 100,000 people in the Netherlands were victims of human trafficking and 22% of women in the Netherlands dealt with sexual violence at least once in their lives.
The Netherlands continues to strive to tackle violence against women in numerous ways. The Netherlands signed the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention); the government ratified the convention on 18 November 2015. Additionally, the Netherlands supports the Beijing Platform for Women. In the Beijing conference of UN women there were 17,000 participants and 30,000 activists. Women victims of domestic violence in the Netherlands have legal access to emergency barring orders prohibiting perpetrators from the victim’s home
We, the Netherlands, greatly support the WHO and all their efforts combating violence against innocent women. By strengthening the WHO with more funding from the U.S, it can have more of a leadership role and strengthen the effectiveness and further strengthen their efforts to prevent violence against women. 38% of murders of women are committed by their male intimate partner.
We need to implement easier ways for people to resolve issues and talk with professionals about problems that have been occurring in their lives. Most people find therapy in any way to be extremely helpful and it gets a lot off their shoulders. For people that therapy feels awkward or it simply doesn’t work there needs to be support from people around them and people need to be taught how to sympathize with people in a genuine way.
