Institute releases internet platform with data on violence against women
The Patrícia Galvão Institute, a social non-profit organization focused on communication and women's rights, released today (July 27) an internet platform aimed at independent journalists and communicators holding data on violence against women.
The tool will be available in August and will provide the contact of 100 subject-matter experts and the latest published research on all types of violence against women, including violence on the Internet (such as revenge porn).
According to the institute, the website aims to provide press access to the Institute's data to reduce prejudices when the subject arises in the news media and also to support independent journalists and activists. “In the last decade, we faced the great expansion of feminism on the Internet,” said Maíra Kubik, a professor of Gender and Diversity Studies at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA).
Jacqueline Pitanguy, executive director of the NGO Citizenship, Study, Research, Information and Action (Cepia), claims that the media needs to stop to harshly judge women who linger on leaving a relationship in which they are suffering domestic violence.
"Domestic violence is a repetitive action and moves in a direction, usually men beat and women are battered. (…) But it happens among
slaps and kisses. There is no way to deal with domestic violence, without addressing the ambiguity of human feelings. Without understanding that, it is very easy to judge women, "said Pitanguy.
Translated by Amarílis Anchieta
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