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Gender-Based Violence in the Context of Mothering: A Critical Canadian Health Perspective
SocietiesViolence against women is a predominant, human rights violation, globally. Understood as any act of gender-based violence resulting in physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women, approximately 35% of women experience violence across ...
Tara Mantler, Kimberley Teresa Jackson
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, 2013 This article analyses gender-based violence in the country contexts of Zimbabwe and El Salvador, where distinct periods of conflict and turbulence led to nominal peace, but no recognisable reduction or improvement in the status of women.
Muriu, Muthoni, Ramisetty, Alivelu
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Becoming resilient: Community‐driven change and the Civic Capacity Index
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract One of the principal features of successful community governance is that it is collaborative and thus dependent on a community's ability to work together. However, there are no valid, comprehensive means to assess a community's capacity to respond to civic challenges in collaborative ways, and that are predictive of community resilience and ...
David MacPhee +2 more
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Combating gender based violence in Rwanda [PDF]
International Journal of Development and Sustainability, 2012 Gender Based Violence (GBV) exists in Rwanda as in many other African societies. Efforts are being made by Governments and NGOs to curb the menace and help its victims.
Liberata Gahongayire
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, 2016 The article analyses the impact of fragility and conflict on women’s and girls’ rights in eastern Mauritania, comparing the experience of Malian refugees living in Mbera Camp with the situation of women and girls outside the camp. Both experience extreme
Martín González, Olga
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The Made‐in‐Africa Evaluation framework: A decolonial approach to program evaluation
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract The Made in Africa Evaluation (MAE) framework is a decolonial approach to program evaluation developed by African evaluators over the past 14 years. MAE may be appropriate to community psychologists who practice program evaluation or conduct research in Africa, but little is known about its implementation.
Takatso Sibanda, Robin Lin Miller
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Bringing Intersectionality Home: Delivering Contextualised Justice in Gender Based Violence
, 2014 Justice for gender-based violence continues to be elusive in the twenty-first century. In Asia, the challenge has been particularly acute given the prevalence of cultural and religious frameworks that predominate individuals’ private and public lives ...
Paryani, PK
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Racism and sexism are associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorder (SUD), yet few studies examine their role in co‐occurring PTSD/SUD. Through qualitative interviews with 23 people of color with PTSD/SUD, we found that racism and sexism influence the onset of men and women of color's PTSD/SUD in gendered ways.
Mallet R. Reid +6 more
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, 2016 The effectiveness of protective measures to combat violence against women is highly dependent on an accurate understanding of the internal (cultural) and external (situational context) factors which motivate or deter help-seeking and justice-based ...
Paryani, PK
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines psychologists' ethical dilemmas in immigration detention centers. Using critical psychology, border, and detention scholarship, it highlights psychologists' historical complicity in state violence, from the U.S. Enhanced Interrogation Program to current border regimes.
Francesca Esposito +6 more
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