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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 +7 more
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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 +3 more
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Gendered and Social Hierarchies in Problem Representation and Policy Processes: "Domestic Violence" in Finland and Scotland [PDF]
, 2010 This article identifies and critiques presumptions about gender and violence that continue to frame and inform the processes of policy formation and implementation on domestic violence.
McKie, Linda +7 more
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Adolescent family violence [PDF]
, 2019 Our two page briefs are designed to provide a snapshot of key terms and definitions, legislation, services and research towards preventing family violence. The briefs are provided in PDF format. To access this information in additional accessible formats,
Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre (5775801) +1 more
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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 +3 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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Bodies as urban infrastructure: Gender, intimate infrastructures and slow infrastructural violence
Political Geography, 2021 Drawing from deep longitudinal and ethnographic work, this article interrogates a set of key relationships between bodies, gender and infrastructure in the context of understanding cities such as Bharatpur and Dhangadhi in Nepal as well as Delhi, India ...
Yaffa Truelove, H. Ruszczyk
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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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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 +2 more
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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 +7 more
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