Gender Violence
Impact of Legislative Gender Quotas on Gender Violence Legislation in Latin America
... measure gender violence in each country, gender violence is broken down into three different categories, each out of five for a total possible of 15 (See Table ...
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Religious Approaches to Preventing Gender Violence and Sexual Abuse in Nigeria
... These religious approaches should be based on traditional moral values, communication and dialogue, love, mutual respect and collegiality spirit to eradicate sexual abuse and gender violence. Any religious ...
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Uncertainties in gender violence epidemiology
... number of households with little travel. SCS held that certain characteristics of the community, like distance from a main road, and also social and cultural characteristics could be relevant to health. It also held that ...
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Women on the scene: humanized childbirth and gender violence
... "Gender violence is the broadest concept, encompassing victims such as women, children and adolescents of both ...sexes." Gender violence, therefore, is an important mechanism of ...
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Femicide and Gender Violence in Mexico: Elements for a Systemic Approach
... that gender equality is, regarding women’s rights, the guarantee of their full participation, in conditions of equality, in civil, cultural, economic, political and social life, as well as the implementation of ...
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Identifiable challenges as global complexities: globalization, gender violence, and statelessness
... between gender-based violence, ethnicity, and poverty is neither clear nor uncontested (Coomaraswamy, ...characterizes violence as cutting across boundaries of ethnicity and income risks minimizing ...
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Forms of gender violence against women in Africa
... Even where women grow cash crops, all the economic returns are paid to the males who are the owners of the land. In case a woman is employed, her salary goes to meet her family obligations while the man's is spent on ...
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Measuring and assessing gender violence
... among Gender-Based, Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence allows us to then devise methods that will provide accurate, reliable data for monitoring and assessing levels of the various ...Partner ...
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Female Foeticide : Gender Violence
... Many voluntary organizations say at least 42,000 girls were lost due to terminated pregnancy in the last one decade. The organizations blame the rise in female foeticide on the use of cheap medical facilities like ...
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Gender Based Violence and Reproductive Health of Indigenous Women in Mexico
... on gender-based violence has considered as a pervasive public health problem that has implications for health policies and programs around the world (Population Reference Bure, ...partner violence or ...
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The intimate city: violence, gender, and ordinary life in Delhi slums
... sexual violence though important do not in themselves question the inherent gender ideologies which normalize or obscure rape within the private ...absolves gender and sexualized violence in ...
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Workplace violence and gender discrimination in Rwanda's health workforce: Increasing safety and gender equality
... for violence. First, workplace violence research and work- force assessments should routinely measure the extent of systemic gender discrimination at ...nating gender inequality, bias, and ...
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Measuring violence to end violence: mainstreaming gender
... volatility in estimates, although this is under review; see ONS, 2016a). A third is to ask about frequency but to group repetitions into a limited number of categories, such as once, two to five and more than six (FRA, ...
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Aggressors or Victims: Gender and Race in Music Video Violence
... interpersonal violence to resolve con- flicts, to release anger, and to prevail in the pursuit of personal ...of violence by the hero is a pervasive and powerfully influential con- cept in American ...
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Sociocultural context of gender based violence in local societies
... domestic violence against a woman in the Chechen society shows that there are general cultural concepts in the national consciousness that reflect typical life fragments of experience in the memory of a person ...
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Invalidation: A Neglected Dimension of Gender-based Violence and Inequality
... Just as the offender can draw on the power of invalidation in the commission of GBV, he can also turn it to his advantage once the offence has been reported. For example, a counter‐claim by a perpetrator can easily ...
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Gender-based violence-supportive cognitions in adolescent girls and boys: The function of violence exposure and victimisation
... relationship is lacking, recent empirical evidence demonstrated low acceptance of wife beating among Caribbean women (Tran et al., 2016), in spite of the frequent occurrence of IPV in the region (Le Franc et al., 2008). ...
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Gender-based violence in buchi emecheta’s the joys of motherhood
... inflicted upon female characters in The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta. Indeed, Buchi Emecheta’s major preoccupation in the aforementioned novel is the African woman within a given socio-cultural and economic ...
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The effectiveness of police gender desks in addressing gender based violence: a case of Nyandarua County - Kenya
... the gender desk officers had properly investigated the case and evidence ...the gender desk took the cases to court, ...the gender desk was not fully ...police gender desks responded to GBV ...
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A GUIDE TO PROGRAMMING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND RESPONSE ACTIVITIES
... to gender-based ...to violence and its consequences, through poverty reduction, access to safe migration, peace and reconciliation processes, safe and supportive education systems, the provision of ...
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