Gender-based violence
An investigation on the extent to which Gender Based Violence influences the Enforcement of Gender Policies in Education in Narok County, Kenya
... and gender has been working hand in hand to address gender issues in ...as Gender Based Violence (GBV) most of it cultural and other factors continue to deny girls ...of Gender ...
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Muslim women and gender based violence in India and the UK
... around gender based violence, both in India and the UK, particularly in policy ...‘othering’ gender based violence in minoritised communities, rather than understanding it within ...
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Experience of, and Perception on Gender Based Violence (GBV) by Pregnant Women in South Eastern Nigeria
... Eight percent of the participants had experienced GBV in their previous pregnancies while 6.8% had experienced it in the index pregnancy. These figures agree with worldwide prevalence rate of 3% - 11% [9] but appear to ...
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Sociocultural context of gender based violence in local societies
... of gender-based violence takes into account the dominant significance of specific sociocultural phenomena — masculine and feminine styles of existence in specific traditional ...the ...
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Representative bureaucracy : does female police leadership affect gender based violence arrests?
... of gender, attention must be paid to not only increasing overall passive representation but also the structure of the organisation and the representation at upper levels of the ...
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Migrant Women and Gender Based Violence in Ireland: Policy, Research & Practice
... Domestic Violence Bill 2017 is passed as intended it will update the existing Domestic Violence Act 1996, introduce coercion as an offence and remove fees for Legal Aid cases involving ...
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Gender Based Violence and Reproductive Health of Indigenous Women in Mexico
... the gender based violence targeting women, regardless of all policies, GBV continues to in- creases at different ...sexual violence mostly by an intimate partner (WHO, ...suffered ...
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Measuring and assessing gender violence
... that Gender-Based Violence be considered to be any act of violence that is attributable to the sex of the ...including violence against sex workers, gay bashing, with-holding of marital ...
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GENDER BASED PHYSICAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN SLUMS
... Gender-based violence in the developing world is beginning to serious scholarly ...overlooks violence against women still Gender based violence against women in slums area ...
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The extent to which Gender Based Violence influences the enforcement of Gender Policies on Women Empowerment in Narok County, Kenya
... and gender equality in order to ensure women, being half of the world’s population enjoy equal rights as well as living in dignity as equal citizens ...of gender equality, discrimination, integration and ...
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Measuring violence to end violence:mainstreaming gender
... to gender in surveys of violence. The first is to treat gender as not important, or endeavour to reach gender neutrality, thus making gender rarely seen or even invisible; for example, ...
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Women on the scene: humanized childbirth and gender violence
... of gender is present in the very constitution of obstetrics as the "science of childbirth" from the production of specialized knowledge about the pregnant female body between the nineteenth and twentieth ...
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In Bangla There Is No Word for Vagina —Reflections on Language, Sexual Health, and Women’s Access to Healthcare in Resource Limited Countries
... er-based violence (GBV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) ...predominantly, gender-based violence (GBV) against ...justify violence [22]. Additionally, physical and ...
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Rapid Review of Scottish Higher Education Responses to Gender Based Violence
... the important social developments that have taken place since they were first published in 1994. This includes, for example, the role of social media in contemporary society, specifically in relation to online abuse and ...
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Forms of gender violence against women in Africa
... Anyanga (1996:14) notes that violence against women, seems to have some deep rooted cause. To her, there appears to be some religio-cultural roots of violence against African Women. The place of women in ...
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Gender Based Violence and Christianity: Catholic Prevention of Divorce Traps Women in an Abusive Marriage
... is based on EVS from 1981 to 2009 and WVS from 1981 to 2014; countries covered are listed in Table ...escape violence, then Catholics’ lower acceptance of di- vorce (implied by Figures 1-3) may increase the ...
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Gendered priorities for ‘improved’ sanitation: insights from Kisumu Kenya
... Even where sanitation facilities are accessible in daylight and are situated in relatively close proximity to potential users, gender specific difficulties often present themselves. Focus groups with schoolgirls ...
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Uncertainties in gender violence epidemiology
... that gender violence does cluster, that this clustering might be informative and even the basis of community- based interventions, increased the pressure for a practical way to separate between ...
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HIV prevention in favour of the choice disabled in southern Africa: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
... The scale of choice-disability in southern Africa is not trivial. One in every 10 school children in South Africa is sexually abused every year [9]. One in six women in the region experiences physical intimate partner ...
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What's in a name? Theorising the inter-relationships of gender and violence
... As knowledge and understanding of the issues has shifted, so too has our language. For example, early work on men’s abuse of their intimate partners often used terms like ‘wife battering’. As our understandings of ...
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