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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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Intersections between disability, masculinities, and violence: experiences and insights from men with physical disabilities from three African countries

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Gender-transformative work in the Global South often focuses on transforming ‘toxic masculinities’ to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV), but there has been little research on whether and how constructions of masculinities by men with ...
Yandisa Sikweyiya, Erin Stern, Jill Hanass-Hancock, Ingrid van der Heijden, Henri Myrttinen, Adolphina Addoley Addo-Lartey, Kristin Dunkle   +6 more
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Trafficking of Vietnamese women and girls for marriage in China

Global Health Research and Policy, 2017
Background Bride-trafficking has been a growing phenomenon in Southeast Asia, particularly in China, where one-child policies have resulted in demographic imbalances favoring males.
Heidi Stöckl, Ligia Kiss, Jobst Koehler, Dung Thuy Dong, Cathy Zimmerman   +4 more
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Gender, violence and Brexit [PDF]

, 2020
How will the UK exit from the EU affect gender-based violence against women? Four issues are addressed to answer this question. First, the importance of theorising the interconnections with a gender regime, including between gendered economic inequality ...
Walby, S.
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The impact of COVID-19 and associated measures on health, police, and non-government organisation service utilisation related to violence against women and children

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Globally, concerns have been raised that the priority implementation of public health measures in response to COVID-19 may have unintended negative impacts on a variety of other health and wellbeing factors, including violence.
Nadia Butler, Zara Quigg, Isabelle Pearson, Zhamin Yelgezekova, Aasa Nihlén, Mark A. Bellis, Yongjie Yon, Jonathon Passmore, Isabel Yordi Aguirre, Heidi Stöckl   +9 more
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How to conduct good quality research on violence against children with disabilities: key ethical, measurement, and research principles

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Approximately one billion children experience violence every year. Violence against children is an urgent global public health concern and violation of children’s rights. It is also a risk factor for serious negative health and social outcomes
Nambusi Kyegombe, Lena Morgon Banks, Susan Kelly, Hannah Kuper, Karen M. Devries   +4 more
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A Call for Social Justice and for a Human Rights Approach with Regard to Mental Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territories [PDF]

Health and Human Rights, 2020
This paper examines the process of depoliticization of mental health in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) and links it to a critical analysis of post-traumatic stress disorder and the role of international humanitarian aid.
Maria Helbich, Samah Jabr
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Factors associated with recent intimate partner violence experience amongst currently married women in Afghanistan and health impacts of IPV: a cross sectional study

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) is exceedingly common in conflict and post-conflict settings. We first seek to describe factors associated with past 12 month IPV amongst currently married women in Afghanistan, focused on the factors typically ...
Andrew Gibbs, Julienne Corboz, Rachel Jewkes   +2 more
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Circumstances, policing, and attrition of multiple compared to single perpetrator rape cases within the South African criminal justice system

Crime Science, 2023
Background Research into the circumstances of rape, and criminal justice system responses, is pivotal to informing prevention and improving the likelihood of justice for victims.
Mercilene Tanyaradzwa Machisa, Ruxana Jina, Gerard Labuschagne, Lisa Vetten, Lizle Loots, Rachel Jewkes   +5 more
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Anti-Discrimination Exceptionalism: Racist Violence before the ECtHR and the Holocaust Prism [PDF]

, 2015
Over the past years, the European Court of Human Rights has significantly developed and strengthened its Article 14 non-discrimination jurisprudence, including in a number of ground-breaking international law cases establishing increased state ...
Möschel, Mathias, Rubio-Marín, Ruth
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