Together with the 16 Days Of Activism In opposition to Gender-Primarily based Violence (Nov 25 – Dec 10), the Girls’s Centre for Change in Penang has launched a video to assist victims of home violence and lift consciousness in regards to the rights of a lady underneath the legislation, notably girls in Muslim marriages.
“The aim is to empower Muslim girls on their rights within the household. A majority of home violence victims in authorities hospitals are Muslim girls and our expertise in serving to them signifies that lots of them do not perceive their rights and do not know what they’ll do in conditions of home violence,” explains WCC programme director Karen Lai.
A majority of the victims are additionally within the decrease earnings bracket, which suggests they do not have the assets or the details about how they’ll search assist and assist, she provides.
WCC social employee Salma Farhana explaining the totally different types of abuse that home violence encompasses. Pictures: WCC
The video is the fourth in a collection of movies produced by WCC and funded by the Canada Fund for Native Initiatives underneath the Canadian Excessive Fee. The primary video within the collection (Empowering Muslim Girls on Their Rights Within the Household) featured the Penang state Mufti who spoke in regards to the complementary rights of women and men in a wedding; the second video targeted on ta’liq, the situations set in a wedding and the rights that girls have underneath this ta’liq; and the third video targeted on nafkah, a lady’s rights to upkeep.
“Other than the mufti, we featured a former Syariah court docket decide and likewise Syariah legal professionals,” explains Lai.
The newest video options interviews with three Muslim survivors of home violence – one who went via sexual violence, one bodily violence and the third, monetary abuse.
“We determined to speak about sexual violence as a result of it is a subject that is not extensively or brazenly talked about. Though underneath our legal guidelines it’s an offence for a husband to trigger harm to their partner in the middle of sexual activity, however marital rape is not criminalised. However the sufferer within the video describes what she went via as rape. It was so violent that she virtually suffered a miscarriage,” says Lai.
Penang state mufti was featured within the first video of the collection.
By highlighting their tales, Lai hopes that different girls who could also be going via related conditions will really feel courageous sufficient to hunt assist once they see that they don’t seem to be alone.
“The accounts are very uncooked however I believe we have to speak about it as a result of sexual violence and home abuse occur. And we hope the video will present victims they don’t seem to be alone and can information them to how they’ll get assist and assist,” says Lai.
