End sexual violence to ensure the fulfillment of women's human rights
Commitment description:Based on Komnas Perempuan's annual records from 2001 to 2011, there were at least 15 types of sexual violence which patterns continue to these days. The fifteen types of sexual violence include: 1) Rape; 2) Sexual intimidation including threats or attempted rape; 3) Sexual Harassment; 4) Sexual Exploitation; 5) Trafficking of Women for Sexual Purposes; 6) Forced Prostitution; 7) Sexual Slavery; 8) Forced Marriage, including Hanging Divorce; 9) Forced Pregnancy; 10) Forced Abortion; 11) Coercion of Contraception and Sterilization; 12) Sexual Torture; 13) Inhuman and sexual nuanced punishment; 14) Traditional sexual practices that endanger or discriminate against women; 15) Sexual control, including through discriminatory rules based on morality and religion.
However, the complexity and forms of violence have not been regulated in the existing law. The Criminal Code only regulates two types, namely rape and molestation, trafficking in persons is regulated in the Law on Combating Trafficking in Persons (PTPPO), sexual exploitation is regulated only in the context of children through the Child Protection Act. That is, adult women cannot be protected by the Act. The Criminal Code does not regulate the prevention of sexual violence, the rights of victims, criminal procedural law in favor of victims. These legal limitations make it difficult for victims and their companions to obtain justice. Based on this situation, Komnas Perempuan and the Service Providers Forum (a network of service provider institutions ) took the initiative to draft a Bill on the Elimination of Sexual Violence in 2014-2016 which contained six key elements and principles of women's human rights, namely: prevention, procedural law including the rights of victims and/or their families, nine types of criminal acts, convictions, monitoring and recovery. Komnas Perempuan commit to push the adoption to legalize the bill on the elimination of sexual violence
Mode of engagement:
- Change or creation of legislationNational Commission on Violence against women together with civil society from various background work together to end violence against women by advocating legal reform and policy that conducive to eliminate all form of gender based violence
Address gender-based violence and the harmful practices of child, early and forced marriages and female genital mutilation(5) (a) Zero sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, including zero child, early and forced marriage, as well as zero female genital mutilation; and (b) Elimination of all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, in order to realize all individuals’ full socio-economic potential.
