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Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, 2019 Introduction: In Brazil, violence, regardless of the type, is the leading cause of death in adolescents and young adults. Objective: To describe the characteristics of the homicides in which female children and adolescents were the victims based on the ...
Angelita Machado-Rios +5 more
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Gender-based violence as a sustainability problem
sozialpolitik.ch, 2022 The connection between gender-based violence and sustainable development remains under-researched, despite the fact that more than 30 percent of women worldwide have experienced physical and/or sexual violence. This article aims to address this research gap by foregrounding the connection between gender-based violence and sus-tainable development by ...
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Is Gun Violence Contagious? [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 Existing theories of gun violence predict stable spatial concentrations and contagious diffusion of gun violence into surrounding areas. Recent empirical studies have reported confirmatory evidence of such spatiotemporal diffusion of gun violence. However, existing tests cannot readily distinguish spatiotemporal clustering from spatiotemporal diffusion.
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Tackling Gender-Based Violence
غالبThe study discusses the issue of gendered violence against men and whether laws and legislation equally protect them. It focuses on the findings of research conducted in Bityi, outside Mthatha, which aimed to improve social work interventions in dealing
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019 Gender-based Violence (GBV) is a huge concern in many African countries such as Zimbabwe despite the preventative and mitigatory interventions that have been proposed and implemented by various stakeholders.
Vhumani Magezi, Peter Manzanga
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Conflict in Yemen: From Ethnic Fighting to Food Riots [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 Yemen is considered a global terrorist base for Al-Qaeda and in recent years rampant violence is threatening social order. Here we show that the socio-economic origins of violence recently changed. Prior to 2008, violence can be attributed to inter-group conflict between ethnically and religiously distinct groups.
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Gender Based Violence and the Law
, 2017 The phenomenon of gender-based violence is pervasive around the world, experienced by some one in three women in their lifetimes. The elimination of such violence has been increasingly recognized as a priority for the international community.
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From Public Outrage to the Burst of Public Violence: An Epidemic-Like Model [PDF]
, 2013 This study extends classical models of spreading epidemics to describe the phenomenon of contagious public outrage, which eventually leads to the spread of violence following a disclosure of some unpopular political decisions and/or activity. Accordingly, a mathematical model is proposed to simulate from the start, the internal dynamics by which an ...
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Humanitarian-specific recommendations for gender-transformative parenting programming: lessons from the field to address gender-based violence. [PDF]
EClinicalMedicineSummary: There has been tremendous progress in building and promoting evidence-based practice around parenting programming in low- and middle-income countries.
Meinhart M +6 more
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Optimizing Legal Protection against Gender-Based Violence From an Islamic Perspective
Al-IzzahGender-based violence in Indonesia is increasingly concerning, despite the existence of numerous laws and regulations aimed at its regulation. This violence significantly impedes development, as its multifaceted impact hinders women's participation ...
Nur Saniah +2 more
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