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Vidarte prize – art against domestic violence
Where
Portugal
Portugal
When
2016
2016
Who
Comission for citizenship and gender equality, cultural strategy, planing and assessment bureau
Comission for citizenship and gender equality, cultural strategy, planing and assessment bureau
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Description of the policy/measure
Portuguese works or co-productions can apply, written in portuguese language and promoted during the period previously defined, works that show:violence caused by a power imbalance between men and women, expressed in physical, psychologic and sexual violence and whose victims are mainly women;violence as an obstacle to achieve equality objectives, development and peace, that infringe, difficult or cancel the full enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms
2005 Convention Monitoring Framework Goal(s)
Area(s) of Monitoring
Cultural Domain(s)
Results achieved
Raise awareness concerning domestic and gender violence, to reduce social tolerance regarding domestic and gender violence; break up gender stereotypes that support relationships based in power and control dinamics from one of the members in relation to the other; make more visible personal and social consequences that life in situations of domestic violence comprises.
Financial resources allocated to the policy
Four prizes are awarded, of 5.000,00 euros each, to the winning works in each of the areas.Â