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Women’s mental health: acute impact of COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence
Archives of Women's Mental Health, 2020 The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic created a situation of general distress. Although the focus has been initially more on the physical health during the pandemic, mental health concerns linked to the lockdown have quickly risen.
S. Sediri +6 more
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It\u27s Not OK: New Zealand\u27s Efforts to Eliminate Violence Against Women [PDF]
, 2008 This Report presents the findings of this research effort. It consists of three parts: Part I sets out the normative framework on domestic violence, both at the international and national level, and explains the relevant norms that govern the ...
Contesse, Jorge, Fenrich, Jeanmarie
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN A SEMI-URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD [PDF]
, 2011 There are no published studies on impact of neighbourhood on domestic violence in Sango-Ota. This is the first study to examine formal and informal control method and the influence of family structure and socio-economic status on the occurrence of ...
Abimbola, Oluremi H. +2 more
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Covid-19, Family Stress and Domestic Violence: Remote Work, Isolation and Bargaining Power
Social Science Research Network, 2020 We study the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic violence and family stress. Our empirical analysis relies on a unique online survey, the Canadian Perspective Survey Series, which allows us to investigate the mechanisms through which COVID-19 may affect ...
Louis-Philippe Beland +3 more
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BMC Public Health, 2016 Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a global public health concern. While community-level gender norms and attitudes to IPV are recognised drivers of IPV risk, there is little evidence on how interventions might tackle these ...
Tanya Abramsky +7 more
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COVID-19, staying at home, and domestic violence
Review of Economics of the Household, 2020 We analyze how staying at home during the COVID-19 pandemic affects the rates of domestic violence in the U.S. Using police dispatch and crime data from 36 police and sheriff’s departments and mobile device tracking data, we find that reported incidents ...
L. Hsu, A. Henke
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Domestic Violence Court: A New Model To Combat Domestic Violence Against Women In Malaysia
UUM Journal of Legal Studies, 2016 Domestic violence is a social epidemic in Malaysia. To combat this, the Domestic Violence Act 1994 and the Domestic Violence (Amendment) Act 2012 has set up a mechanism via the Malaysian criminal justice system to investigate reports, prosecute the ...
Nazli Mahdzir +3 more
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COVID-19: urgency for distancing from domestic violence
European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2020 Background: Although COVID-19 is a major worldwide health threat, there is another global public health emergency that is becoming a growing challenge. Domestic violence is a public health and human rights issue that primarily affects women and children ...
Deniz Ertan +4 more
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International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 2006 For too long human rights have been used to support a legal approach to domestic violence which is non-interventionist. This article discusses the ways in which human rights can be used to compel an approach to cases of domestic violence which requires state action to protect those harmed by domestic abuse. It argues that the state has an obligation to
Choudhry, S, Herring, J
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Domestic violence amid COVID‐19
International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, 2020 This manuscript highlights the risk that shelter‐in‐place instructions during COVID‐19 places on victims of domestic violence and serves as a call‐to‐action to address this crisis.
Ashri Anurudran +4 more
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