Management of Violence Suffered by Girls and Women with Disabilities in Ivory Coast

Kouakou Konan Isidore

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18535/sshj.v8i12.1471

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Issue
Vol. 8 No. 12 (2024)
Published
2024-12-01
Keywords:
    Management, Violence, Girls and Women, Disability, Ivory Coast
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Abstract

This article presents the results of a study aimed at understanding the management of violence suffered by girls and women with disabilities in an urban context. It is based on a documentary study and semi-structured interviews. There were 47 participants in the study. They were chosen using the non-probability and purposive sampling method.  The results obtained through a qualitative analysis of the data reveal that once entered, the competent structures (police station, social center, school, UNAFEHCI) in the matter implement a range of care (medical, psychological, psycho-educational and social, nutritional, educational and economic, hygienic, legal and judicial) of the survivors in an attempt to rehabilitate them on the one hand and to punish the possible culprits on the other. However, it appears that many cases of violence suffered have not been followed up due to family interference, a simple absence of complaint or a failure to denounce the culprit by the victim or their parents. that faced with the violence suffered, girls and women with disabilities or their parents choose to contact either the social center, the police station, the gendarmerie or directly the Association of Paralytic Women of Côte d'Ivoire (AFPCI) with a view to obtain redress, except to remain silent.

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Authors

Kouakou Konan Isidore
Lecturer researcher Felix Houphouet-Boigny University/Ivory Coast
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“Management of Violence Suffered by Girls and Women with Disabilities in Ivory Coast”, Soc. sci. humanities j., vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 5945–5952, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.18535/sshj.v8i12.1471.