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Gender-based violence and the challenge of visual representation [PDF]

, 2013
Considering the efforts to resolve the societal phenomenon of violence against women (VAW), universal in all countries, information, awareness-raising and the role of the media are regarded as key targets. According to the European Commission (2010), the
Wolf, Birgit
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Gun Laws and Violence Against Women [PDF]

, 2013
To fully combat violence against women in America, Congress must act to strengthen our gun laws. Women in the United States are far more likely to be murdered with guns than they are in any other developed nation.

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Symbolic boundary work: Jewish and Arab femicide in Israeli Hebrew newspapers.

British Journal of Sociology
We analyze 391 news reports in Israeli newspapers between 2013 and 2015, covering murders of women and their family members by other family members and intimate partners.
Eran Shor, Ina Filkobski
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Femicide – The Analysis of a Social Phenomenon

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov: Series VII: Social Sciences, Law
Gender-based violence is a serious social phenomenon which endangers the basis of a democratic state. It represents a threat to the fundamental values which are at the basis of the European Union.
Diana-Geanina Ionas
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The Dynamic Impact of Periodic Review on Women’s Rights [PDF]

, 2018
Human rights treaty bodies have been frequently criticized as useless and the regime’s self-reporting procedure widely viewed as a whitewash. Yet very little research explores what, if any, influence this periodic review process has on governments ...
Creamer, Cosette D., Simmons, Beth A.
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SASH: Student Academic Showcase and Honors 2018 [PDF]

, 2017
A celebration of scholarship and creative activities for undergraduate and graduate students held in April, 2018 at the Roger Williams University campus in Bristol, Rhode ...
Roger Williams University
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GUN ACCESS AND FEMICIDE: A DIFFERENTIAL IMPACT OF FIREARMS ON INTIMATE KILLINGS [PDF]

, 2005
Studies of intimate partner homicide have repeatedly suggested that gun accessibility increases the risk that a confrontation between intimates will end in the death of one partner, usually the woman.
Cross, Amanda Brown
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Failure to listen to the whispering: Proverbs 12:24–28 in times of femicide epidemic

Verbum et Ecclesia
This study aims to examine Proverbs 12:24–28 considering the increasing rates of femicide in Nigeria. Various approaches have been employed to address the issue of femicide in the country.
Favour C. Uroko
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Ethnicity and Reproduction [PDF]

, 2004
No abstract ...
Church, Sarah, Earle, Sarah
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‘Do You Think I Can Kill You?’ Exploring Intimate Femicide in South Africa and Why Intimacy Hurts So Much

Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics
This article draws on two South African books published recently dealing with violence against women, namely Nechama Brodie’s Femicide in South Africa (2020), and Kopano Ratele’s Why Men Hurt Women and Other Reflections on Love, Violence and Masculinity (
Charla Smith
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