Gender-Inclusive Monitoring Helps Ensure Women's Issues Are Not Ignored in Regional Election

... regions with high rates of violence against women, women's trafficking and child marriages ... with a track record of violence against women should not be allowed to ... Java had more incidence of violence against women than any other province in ...

Witness Protection Program Continues Despite Pandemic

... Center for the Empowerment of Women and Children (P2TP2A) and other ... sexual abuse cases, 40 in violence cases and 44 in other ... laundering, drug crimes, sexual abuse against women and children and torture.

How Social Restrictions Can Trigger Domestic Violence

... the violence was not committed just by men against women and children. Women can ... survey, 32 of them involved violence against children. Dian said the government ... policy might also trigger more violence against children. "It adds to the ...

Violence Against Women in Indonesia Is Systemic and the Government Is Not Doing Enough to Unravel It: Rights Activists

... of violence against women to a total of 406,178 cases. "Violence against women is ... (YLBHI) director Asfinawati said violence against women is a very complex issue ... also pointed out that violence against women leads to violence against human rights, often in ...

Indonesia Seeks to Slash Child Marriage Rate to 8.7 Pct

... of the National Commission for Women, said the compulsory education ... or Bappenas, and the Women Empowerment and Child Protection Ministry ... to build an environment against child marriage by changing ... girl at risks of domestic violence and one-sided divorce ...

Victims' Families Heap Pressure on Komnas HAM to Solve Human Rights Cases

... Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), submitted three demands to ... Indonesia. Thousands of Chinese-Indonesian women were raped and murdered during ... effort has become a race against time since some of the ...

Child-Oriented NGOs Launch Joint Anti-Violence Campaign

... or IJF, to end violence against children through an advocacy ... still not free from violence against children. We will come ... prevention program and policy against child violence; create a non ... and the National Commission for Women (Komnas Perempuan). In 2014 ...

Gov't in Tight Bind Over Repatriation of IS Sympathizers

... inside Indonesia against repatriating these women supporters of IS ... an act of treason against Indonesia. At the ... women stayed inside refugee camps, the more they were exposed to violence ... specifically addressed to protecting women. Most importantly, the ...

Young Innovators Win Awards for Advancing UN SDG Agenda

... and pods for pregnant women to prevent stunting. The ... the moringa tree for pregnant women to prevent stunting. " ... great health benefits for pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers and children. ... more effort to prevent violence against children and provide equal ...

House Puts Sexual Violence Bill on Hold Until Next Term

... to formulate the sexual violence bill and start working ... nine types of sexual violence: sexual abuse, sexual exploitation ... increasing rate of sexual violence in Indonesia. According to ... the National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan), at ...