Prevention and/or Elimination of Gender-Based Violence Against Women and Girls with Disabilities
We develop outreach programs intervention and custom fitted wheelchairs for women and girls with disabilities who are victims of violence. We partner with Civil Society Organizations such as Migrant Care to address the intersectionality issue of Indonesian women’s migrant workers, who are those who have disabilities due to accident and violence during their work in other countries. OHANA also works with the Indonesian Organizations of Persons with Disabilities to end gender based
violence such as CIQAL, HWDI, Women Athlete with Disabilities, PERTUNI, GERKATIN.
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Training on preventing gender based violence against women with disabilities forwomen with disabilities organization
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16 Days Campaign on Ending Gender Based Violence
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Training on access to Justice for the justice systems in Yogyakarta Province
OHANA has been working on preventing gender based violence against women and girls with disabilities since 2019 supported by the UN Trust Fund and Women's Fund Asia. Our organization's mission continues strengthening the rights of all women and girls with disabilities to have equal rights on access to justice and to be free from all forms of violence. Our programs include improving access for women and girls with disabilities to health and social services on an equal basis as others. Also, the project provided strategies to prevent violence against women and girls with disabilities through the promotion of good practices to change better behaviour and attitude in the long term are introduced within participating communities, and increased capacity of women and girls with disabilities to exercise. During the three years of the project (2019 - 2022) we were advocating policies at national and local levels to prevent and end violence against women and girls with disabilities. We worked directly with the justice system personnels to ensure accessibility and reasonable accommodation are provided in terms of access to justice for all persons with disabilities and to recognize equal recognition before the law. OHANA project together with other international organizations was published by the UN Trust Fund here.
OHANA continued working on ending gender based violence through conducting 16Days Campaign on Ending Gender Based Violence in collaboration with Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana, Jogja Film Academy and Special Schools to address more girls and young women with disabilities to increase better understanding on ending and preventing gender based violence. In addition, we also worked on training
series on access to Justice for the justice systems in Yogyakarta Province. The training
included awareness raising on rights of girls and women with disabilities, equal recognition before the law, guardianship system and in particular rights of people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities as well as providing pro bono lawyers through OHANA Law Center. OHANA has been supported fully to do these three years of projects by Women's Fund Asia. The impact of this project has reached more than 1000 women
and girls with disabilities, organizations of persons with disabilities, young students, justice system personnels and government stakeholders. Additionally, the project also has contributed to a change in mindset and increased awareness in reducing the stigma and stereotype of women with disabilities significantly in Yogyakarta Province,especially among the justice system personnels, government stakeholders and the
communities.
