National Working groupMudawwanah

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Situation in The Netherlands on HRV and FM

National Policy

• HRV and FM:• on the political national agenda since 2003; • thanks to migrant (women) organizations and NGO’s

Interdepartmental Program on HRV 2005-2011 • Cooperation between ministries of Justice, Healthcare and Welfare, Housing,

Communities and Integration.• Aim: integration of the approach of HRV in the general approach of Domestic Violence • Activities: Definition, research, pilots at the police, trainings of professionals, prevention and

debates in the affected communities, etc.

• From 2011:No special policy on HRV, only on FM.

• National policy decentralized to local policy, • Less prevention towards more repression, • Less specific measures for certain groups to generic policy.

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National situation on HRV and FM

Several activities of NGO’s and grass root organizations:

• Shelters for girls and young women• Support for LGBT (Safe Haven) • “If I were her ….’ / If I were him …’ • ‘At the good side of honour’• RespectEER • YourRight2Choose campaign• Changemakers against HRV• …………

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Introduction Dutch Working Groep Mudawwanah

• Origin of WGM: 2000

* Legal position women and children (Moroccan/Dutch family law and right of residence)

* Amendments Mudawwanah 2004

* Complex problem and implementation legislation - Netherlands/Morocco

* Abandonment women and children exposed by SSR and Dutch women’s groups and ministries.

• Members working group • Participation organizations/ministries

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National working group Mudawwanah

• Key WGM targets

- Better legal position w/m/c through education on legislation, rights, awareness and empowerment

- Stimulating personal responsibility and enhancing emancipation and participation

- Change of mentality/traditions w/m/y

- Preventing violence

- Improve social legal support

- Strong network, national and international collaboration

• Know your rights = emancipation dynamo

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National working group Mudawwanah

Forms of violence interconnect Abandonment

• Abandonment of women, children, young people and sometimes men: involuntary abandonment in country of origin without legal documents.

• Forced marriage Between free choice of partner and explicit forced marriages there is a

large grey area of ‘implicit coercion’ • Domestic violence Violence committed by a relative of the victim. Physical, sexual abuse,

harassment and threatening.• Honor related violence

Any form of mental or physical violence in reaction to a (threat of) violation of a man or women’s honor, and thus of the family, which is either revealed or at risk of being revealed to the community.

• Female genital mutilation

‘Harmful traditional practices’

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National working group Mudawwanah

Free choice or abandonment?• Abandonment = form of violence and violation

of human rights • Victims: women, young people, children, men

(figures) • Which countries, occurrence?• Reasons for (threat of) abandonment:

parenting/marriage/family problems, authority, arranged marriage, economical motives/remigration

• Effects of abandonment (Bartels)

• Advice: Research 2005, Advisory board Alien Affairs

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National working group Mudawwanah - Project 2009 - 2011

• Information campaign Legal position and Abandonment: Moroccan /Turkish women, men, young people: soc/legal support

• Part 1. Developing information materials Mudawwanah Moroccan working groups (2000)

• Part 2. Additional tools and information on abandonment (2005)

• Part 3. Final part information campaign (2009)

Moroccan/Turkish/Dutch family law, partner choice, right of residence and abandonment Target groups: Moroccan, Turkish/Kurdish

w/m/y, self-organizations

Professionals: care workers/lawyers

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National working group Mudawwanah

Activities: Agendizing legal status• Developing information materials• Training educators: Moroccan and Turkish/

Kurdish women/men• Information meetings in all regions with

grass root/affected communities, widespread

• Training professionals, volunteers, self organizations: seminars

• Implementation of activities, collaborations and building networks

• Lobby with politicians and policy makers

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National working group Mudawwanah

Moroccan, Turkish, Dutch family/personal law, alien law and nationality

• Free choice of partner to forced marriage • Dutch, Turkish and Moroccan marriages:

procedures, recognition, conditions, bride price, registration

• Informal marriages (religious marriage)• Divorce, recognitions, authority and care,

alimony and dividing possessions, registration

• Child rights in different systems – nationality

• Dutch residency: rights and duties

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National working group Mudawwanah

Abandonment and action • Abandonment (and abduction) always calls for

action• Education, information, identification and

reporting in the Netherlands and the original homeland

• Prevention, support line (phone) and follow up care: customized action!

• Collaboration support parties, intermediaries, measures and return procedures.

• Abandonment and right of residence: legal support to enable return of women and children.

• National and international policy, agreements and collaboration– also see LEC

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National working group Mudawwanah and Remigrants support

SSR and project Abandonment: • Reporting stations Morocco and

Netherlands• Care: shelter and aid to return in Morocco

and Netherlands – Chain partners• Education and prevention• Network reporting stations • Collaborations organizations and

researchers Morocco /Netherlands• Lobby: ministries, politicians,

commissions, embassies, policy makers• Expert meetings care workers/lawyers • Bilateral/international network!

Thank you!

Saniye Tezcan

More information:

Stichting Kezban ph:0031683226435

www.stichtingkezban.nl