Resolution 3 : Sexual and gender-based violence: joint action on prevention and response | Power of humanity: Red Cross Red Crescent

National Society

Name, position and email of the focal person

Sara Afzali, ARCS Gender Manager
sarah_afzali@yahoo.com

1. Does your National Society carry out or support activities that help to implement the 2015 Resolution on sexual and gender-based violence?
Yes

2. To date, which areas of the resolution has your National Society been implementing?

Although our last area of our action were all on the basis of gender mainstreaming, but we prefer affirming that women's political, social and economic empowerment gender equality and the engagement of men and boys in the effort to combat all forming of violence against women are essential to long term efforts to prevent sexual and gender based violence in armed conflict disasters and other emergencies to be considered in our future plans of actions

3. Briefly describe the specific activities that your National Society has so far undertaken to implement Resolution 3

ARCS gender department have gender based violence awareness workshops in their activities plan of 2017.

4. Briefly describe any challenges that your National Society may have faced when implementing Resolution 3, or which prevented you from implementing it

This activity is on planning and designing phase, after implementation phase we will be able to talk about challenges

5. Is there any support you would like to receive from the ICRC or International Federation in working on the implementation of the Resolution going forward?

Gender based violence is a new area of activities for ARCS, therefore technical support is needed.

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