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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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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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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 on pandemic of COVID-19

, 2020
Among the measures imposed by different countries, suggested by experts and epidemiologists to curb the number of infections and death from the pandemic COVID-19 is quarantined, forcing families to stay home longer and interact with family members.
David Alejandro Navarrete Solórzano, María Rodríguez Gámez, Osvaldo Jiménez Pérez de Corcho   +2 more
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Topless in La Habana: Space, pleasure, and visibility in ethically representing gender-based violence [PDF]

, 2023
This chapter analyses the 2019 music video, ‘Sinca Misa’, by queer feminist hip-hop duo, Krudxs Cubensi, which provides an innovative example of both the dynamic activism that resists sexist abuse, and the resulting mediatic resources.
Geraghty, Clare
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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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“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, Pip McKnight, S. Ozcurumez, S. Taal   +7 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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The sociological significance of domestic violence: Tensions, paradoxes and implications [PDF]

, 2013
Sociology and sociological theory has been effective in analyzing societal and institutional conflict and violence, but less so the specifics of interpersonal violence. This article examines the sociological significance of domestic violence.
Hearn, Jeff,, Jeff Hearn, Hearn, Jeff
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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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