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Water insecurity and gender‐based violence: A global review of the evidence

WIREs Water, 2022
We reviewed the existing literature documenting the association between water insecurity and gender‐based violence to (1) describe the characteristics and contexts of available studies, and (2) identify and classify documented gender‐based violence ...
P. Tallman, Shalean M. Collins, G. Salmon‐Mulanovich, B. Rusyidi, Aman Kothadia, S. Cole   +5 more
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Gender, gender-based violence and training on the Micaela Law

Community and Interculturality in Dialogue, 2022
Introduction: Gender-based violence is a pervasive and underestimated issue worldwide, affecting all societal aspects, including universities. While Argentina has made progress in gender rights, universities still struggle with gender-based violence due ...
María del Valle Rodriguez
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How Women’s Police Stations Empower Women, Widen Access to Justice and Prevent Gender Violence

International Journal For Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2020
Women’s police stations are a distinctive innovation that emerged in postcolonial nations of the global south in the second half of the twentieth century to address violence against women.
K. Carrington, Natacha Guala, M. Puyol, Máximo Sozzo   +3 more
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Ecological pathways to prevention: How does the SASA! community mobilisation model work to prevent physical intimate partner violence against women?

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, Karen M. Devries, Lori Michau, Janet Nakuti, Tina Musuya, Ligia Kiss, Nambusi Kyegombe, Charlotte Watts   +7 more
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The role of mental health in primary prevention of sexual and gender-based violence [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2014
In this short communication, we assert that mental health has a crucial role in the primary prevention of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). However, we found that most research and practice to date has focused on the role of mental health post ...
Aník Gevers, Elizabeth Dartnall
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Secondary distress in violence researchers: a randomised trial of the effectiveness of group debriefings

BMC Psychiatry, 2017
Background Secondary distress including emotional distress, vicarious trauma (VT) and secondary traumatic stress (STS) due to exposure to primary trauma victims have been described in helping professionals and in violence researchers.
Heidi Grundlingh, Louise Knight, Dipak Naker, Karen Devries   +3 more
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Association between intimate partner violence and nutritional status of married Nepalese women

Global Health Research and Policy, 2022
Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) is physical, sexual, or psychological harm perpetrated by a spouse or an intimate partner. Its detrimental effects on women’s physical, mental, sexual, and reproductive health are well-documented.
Arun Chaudhary, Janet Nakarmi, Annekathryn Goodman   +2 more
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“We are Forgotten”: Forced Migration, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, and Coronavirus Disease-2019

Violence against Women, 2021
Adopting a structural violence approach, this article explores, with survivors and practitioners, how early coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic conditions affected forced migrant sexual and gender-based violence survivors’ lives.
J. Phillimore, Sandra Pertek, S. Akyuz, Hoayda Darkal, J. Hourani, P. McKnight, S. Ozcurumez, S. Taal   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Ntombi Vimbela! Sexual violence risk reduction intervention: pre and one-year post assessments from a single arm pilot feasibility study among female students in South Africa

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background The extremely high prevalence of sexual violence victimisation reported among female students in South African public higher education demands urgent action to develop, rigorously evaluate and scale effective prevention interventions.
Mercilene Tanyaradzwa Machisa, Pinky Mahlangu, Esnat Chirwa, Ncediswa Nunze, Yandisa Sikweyiya, Elizabeth Dartnall, Managa Pillay, Rachel Jewkes   +7 more
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A mixed-methods, exploratory, quasi-experimental evaluation of a radio drama intervention to prevent age-disparate transactional sex in Tanzania

Frontiers in Reproductive Health, 2022
IntroductionAge-disparate transactional sex (ADTS) is associated with HIV, unintended pregnancy, school dropout and violence, yet few interventions have successfully prevented it, and none have set ADTS prevention as their primary outcome.
Marjorie Pichon, Daniel J Carter, Lottie Howard-Merrill, Revocatus Sono, Veronicah Gimunta, Oscar Rutenge, Yandé Thiaw, Kirsten Stoebenau, Nancy Perrin, Ana Maria Buller   +9 more
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