National
Working group
Mudawwanah
Situation in The Netherlands on HRV and FM
National Policy
• HRV and FM:
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on the political national agenda since 2003;
thanks to migrant (women) organizations and NGO’s
Interdepartmental Program on HRV 2005-2011
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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
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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.
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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Thank you!
Saniye Tezcan
More information:
Stichting Kezban
ph:0031683226435
www.stichtingkezban.nl