EmpowHer is a project that stems from a twofold need: to disseminate the principles of the Istanbul Convention in a clear, usable and interactive manner and to train staff of schools, training centres and formal and non-formal learning centres on the issues of gender equality and gender-based violence.
It is essential to publicize the Istanbul Convention in order to protect the treaty itself (from which some countries have already withdrawn and others are threatening to do so) and, at the same time, bring its principles to young people, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to promote the achievement of a more equitable and inclusive society.
Duration: 15 months
Start and end date: 01/11/22 - 01/02/24
Partners:
THE THREE GHINEE- ITALY (Lead).
SOLUTION: SOLIDARITÉ & INCLUSION - France
INCIRLIOVA GENCLIK KULTUR SANAT VE GELISIM DERNEGI - TURKEY
Local activities
Within the project, several activities will be carried out that will mainly follow two strands:
1) Local workshops and dissemination events on the Istanbul Convention and the prevention of gender-based violence, in which the topics will not only be addressed from a historical-legal point of view, but interactive and creative methodologies will be shared to increase the level of involvement of the target audience.
2) A guide that includes a section with the methodology to be used, another section with two examples of implementation of activities and an appendix collecting good practices.
Through these local activities and mentoring, the project aims to involve and train a large number of trainers, who will then be able to independently develop workshops on the issues of discrimination and gender-based violence, thus involving a large number of young people, who will learn about the Istanbul Convention and become advocates themselves for a more equitable and women's rights-conscious society.
A LARGE VOICE
Experiential theater workshop on gender and domestic violence prevention from the Istanbul Convention
Edited by Veronica Pinto
- 7 and 8 October 2023, 2-6 p.m.
As part of the Erasmus + EmpowHer project, we are proposing a two-day workshop dedicated to practitioners, social workers, activists and teachers*.
Through this short practical-experiential work, we intend to share reflections and tools for disseminating the principles and themes contained in the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention 2011) by means of tools derived from the performing arts.
An international treaty that is the result of decades of work, it is currently a legal instrument that is certainly perfectible, but of unquestionable effectiveness in preventing and combating gender and domestic violence.
Unknown to most, this text has been distorted and opposed in some countries because of its interpretation of “gender” as a social construct. in italy, this distortion constitutes an obstacle to its full implementation, especially in the field of violence prevention.
The workshop is intended as a space for theoretical-practical experimentation. The two modules of four hours each are designed to give participants a fully replicable experience with high school students.
As for the theoretical part, a bottom-up learning strategy will be used. We will work collectively on the discovery of the text through research activities and construction of meaning from data, key words, and definitions. We will then open discussions on the themes that emerged on the day through specific legal and topical cases.
For the practical part, the focus will be on voice: we will work individually and in groups, on the construction of a chorus of voices that will take up some of the material extracted from the text of the Convention and some of our own reworkings. We will thus construct a short performance to take to every classroom and place where it is necessary to reclaim rights in a loud voice.
The workshop is free of charge but limited places are available.
For info and reservations write to: info@letreghinee.org