Youth For Women Offline & Online

Our Efforts Towards a Gender Equal

World

Advocacy moments

Youth For Women Foundation has been a global advocate for gender justice, SRHR, LGBTQ+ rights, and the eradication of all forms of GVB for 4 years now. We have reached over 5000+ women and young people in the some remote and marginalized communities and have provided them with educational and advocacy oppotunities along with SRHR awareness projects and services. Below are some examples of our advocacy efforts:

GBV Research Initiative in rural Iraq


We have carried out a community level research that targeted 1200+ girls and women in 750+ households, where we assessed their awareness on the domestic violence policy, the national GBV hotline, and whether they would report abuse from their male relatives. We have found that more than 90% would not report an abuse case, and 83% were not familiar of the national domestic violence policy especially the hotline service. We also assessed the need for our next community advocacy project and the results were absolutely demanding a change.

Multi-Day Workshops for Adolescents


Youth For Women Foundation has conducted multiple worksops for more than a thousand adolescent girls and boys on various gender justice and digital literacy issues ranging from gender equality, Gender-Based Violence, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Female Genital Mutilation, Teenage Pregnancy, Forced Marriage, and digital rights and literacy objectives. 

THE STORY OF A GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE VICTIM

'My name is Amira (noun covered) and I am a 45 years-old domestic violence survivor. I was married to a man by arranged marriage at the age of 17, I was forced to drop out of school and I thought maybe life can get better after I get married especially that my family had extremely bad financial situation. I was beaten in the first night of the wedding, and was verbally abused every single day since. I had 3 children from him and we were all financially dependent on him, who was extremely strict. I was getting beaten up and verbally abused each time I asked him to buy milk or diapers for our children, or when I asked him to take me to a hospital while I was dying of diseases. I used to cry and beg him to forgive me for things I never done, he used to humiliate me and our kids in front of people, and used to physicaly and verbally abuse me while our kids were watching fearfuly. I still live with him because I have no other way considering my financial status. But I keep hoping everyday for a change.'

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