On Thursday The aim was to discuss how violence can be prevented more effectively in Gera and how those affected by violence can be helped even more professionally.
Our aim must be to raise public awareness of the issue and prevent it," says Sandra Wanzar, Head of Youth and Social Affairs for the city of Gera.
I would therefore like to thank the many strong partners who are involved in the network and the symposium". Since the beginning of , the network has been working intensively on the question of how the implementation of the Istanbul Convention can be supported and monitored, particularly in a sub-working group.
The first step was to conduct a survey on services for women affected by domestic and sexual violence in Gera within the Gera network against domestic violence. The symposium was planned from the beginning of together with the Department of Youth and Social Affairs and the City of Gera's Equal Opportunities Officer, with the aim of involving other existing Gera networks, alliances and committees in the city in the topic and incorporating the jointly developed results into integrated social planning," continues the Head of Social Affairs.
One in ten women experience this violence multiple times as so-called domestic violence. In , this ended fatally for women and 26 men. The Gera police reported women and 30 men as victims of domestic violence. Men also experience violence, but the people most affected by domestic and gender-based violence are women". She knows many victims of violence and knows what this violence, which is often experienced repeatedly, does to them and how difficult it is to free themselves from the psychological and physical consequences.
