national working group mudawwanah. ken uw rechten2 situation in the netherlands on hrv and fm...
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National Working groupMudawwanah
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Situation in The Netherlands on HRV and FM
National Policy
• HRV and FM:• on the political national agenda since 2003; • thanks to migrant (women) organizations and NGO’s
Interdepartmental Program on HRV 2005-2011 • Cooperation between ministries of Justice, Healthcare and Welfare, Housing,
Communities and Integration.• Aim: integration of the approach of HRV in the general approach of Domestic Violence • Activities: Definition, research, pilots at the police, trainings of professionals, prevention and
debates in the affected communities, etc.
• From 2011:No special policy on HRV, only on FM.
• National policy decentralized to local policy, • Less prevention towards more repression, • Less specific measures for certain groups to generic policy.
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National situation on HRV and FM
Several activities of NGO’s and grass root organizations:
• Shelters for girls and young women• Support for LGBT (Safe Haven) • “If I were her ….’ / If I were him …’ • ‘At the good side of honour’• RespectEER • YourRight2Choose campaign• Changemakers against HRV• …………
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Introduction Dutch Working Groep Mudawwanah
• Origin of WGM: 2000
* Legal position women and children (Moroccan/Dutch family law and right of residence)
* Amendments Mudawwanah 2004
* Complex problem and implementation legislation - Netherlands/Morocco
* Abandonment women and children exposed by SSR and Dutch women’s groups and ministries.
• Members working group • Participation organizations/ministries
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National working group Mudawwanah
• Key WGM targets
- Better legal position w/m/c through education on legislation, rights, awareness and empowerment
- Stimulating personal responsibility and enhancing emancipation and participation
- Change of mentality/traditions w/m/y
- Preventing violence
- Improve social legal support
- Strong network, national and international collaboration
• Know your rights = emancipation dynamo
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National working group Mudawwanah
Forms of violence interconnect Abandonment
• Abandonment of women, children, young people and sometimes men: involuntary abandonment in country of origin without legal documents.
• Forced marriage Between free choice of partner and explicit forced marriages there is a
large grey area of ‘implicit coercion’ • Domestic violence Violence committed by a relative of the victim. Physical, sexual abuse,
harassment and threatening.• Honor related violence
Any form of mental or physical violence in reaction to a (threat of) violation of a man or women’s honor, and thus of the family, which is either revealed or at risk of being revealed to the community.
• Female genital mutilation
‘Harmful traditional practices’
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National working group Mudawwanah
Free choice or abandonment?• Abandonment = form of violence and violation
of human rights • Victims: women, young people, children, men
(figures) • Which countries, occurrence?• Reasons for (threat of) abandonment:
parenting/marriage/family problems, authority, arranged marriage, economical motives/remigration
• Effects of abandonment (Bartels)
• Advice: Research 2005, Advisory board Alien Affairs
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National working group Mudawwanah - Project 2009 - 2011
• Information campaign Legal position and Abandonment: Moroccan /Turkish women, men, young people: soc/legal support
• Part 1. Developing information materials Mudawwanah Moroccan working groups (2000)
• Part 2. Additional tools and information on abandonment (2005)
• Part 3. Final part information campaign (2009)
Moroccan/Turkish/Dutch family law, partner choice, right of residence and abandonment Target groups: Moroccan, Turkish/Kurdish
w/m/y, self-organizations
Professionals: care workers/lawyers
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National working group Mudawwanah
Activities: Agendizing legal status• Developing information materials• Training educators: Moroccan and Turkish/
Kurdish women/men• Information meetings in all regions with
grass root/affected communities, widespread
• Training professionals, volunteers, self organizations: seminars
• Implementation of activities, collaborations and building networks
• Lobby with politicians and policy makers
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National working group Mudawwanah
Moroccan, Turkish, Dutch family/personal law, alien law and nationality
• Free choice of partner to forced marriage • Dutch, Turkish and Moroccan marriages:
procedures, recognition, conditions, bride price, registration
• Informal marriages (religious marriage)• Divorce, recognitions, authority and care,
alimony and dividing possessions, registration
• Child rights in different systems – nationality
• Dutch residency: rights and duties
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National working group Mudawwanah
Abandonment and action • Abandonment (and abduction) always calls for
action• Education, information, identification and
reporting in the Netherlands and the original homeland
• Prevention, support line (phone) and follow up care: customized action!
• Collaboration support parties, intermediaries, measures and return procedures.
• Abandonment and right of residence: legal support to enable return of women and children.
• National and international policy, agreements and collaboration– also see LEC
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National working group Mudawwanah and Remigrants support
SSR and project Abandonment: • Reporting stations Morocco and
Netherlands• Care: shelter and aid to return in Morocco
and Netherlands – Chain partners• Education and prevention• Network reporting stations • Collaborations organizations and
researchers Morocco /Netherlands• Lobby: ministries, politicians,
commissions, embassies, policy makers• Expert meetings care workers/lawyers • Bilateral/international network!
Thank you!
Saniye Tezcan
More information:
Stichting Kezban ph:0031683226435
www.stichtingkezban.nl