Introduction: cet article expose les résultats d’un projet de recherche-action participative visant à : (a) comprendre la stigmatisation subie par les différents membres des familles vivant avec une personne ayant une déficience intellectuelle à Kinshasa,
Heather M Aldersey +5 more
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Sexual exploitation in children: Nature, prevalence and distinguishing characteristics reported in young adulthood [PDF]
The aim of this study was to explore the nature and extent of sexual exploitation in a university student sample, whilst being clear that sexual exploitation is sexual abuse.
Ashcroft D. +26 more
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Childhood obesity and educational attainment : A systematic review [PDF]
Background This report describes the findings and methods of a systematic review of research which explores the relationship between obesity and educational attainment.
Caird, Jenny +6 more
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Simulating the impact of regulation changes on the market for prostitution services [PDF]
The paper draws on recent research on the economics of prostitution focussing on the role of stigma in shaping the interaction between demand and supply and the resulting sub-markets in which this activity is typically organised.
Della Giusta, Marina
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Why are so many Nepali women killing themselves? A review of key issues [PDF]
Background: For decades the maternal mortality in Nepal was the lead cause of death among women, with great improvements in the maternal mortality ratio in the twentieth century the second most common cause has become more prominent.
Dhungel, A. +5 more
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Western Imaginary and Imagined Defense Strategies of Eastern Europe and its Borderlands [PDF]
This work discusses how the Western imaginary or the way “the West looks East” reinforces the construction of “unstable” or ambivalent identities in the new European countries, as well as the margins of Eastern Europe.
Lia Tsuladze
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Invisibiliser pour dominer. L’effacement des classes populaires dans l’urbanisme contemporain
« There was nothing ». The fact that this expression appears regularly in speeches from two different kinds of urban renewal projects reveals how the presence of some social groups is being erased by contemporary urban planning.
Matthieu Adam, Léa Mestdagh
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Perceptions of justice and hierarchies of rape:Rethinking approaches to sexual violence in Eastern Congo from the ground up [PDF]
Based on extensive fieldwork research in South Kivu in eastern DRC, this article considers the questions of justice for survivors of sexual violence from the ground-up.
Aroussi, Sahla
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Non-uptake of HIV testing in children at risk in two urban and rural settings in Zambia: a mixed-methods study [PDF]
This article investigates reasons why children who were considered at risk of HIV were not taken for HIV testing by their caregivers. Qualitative and quantitative data collected in Zambia from 2010-11 revealed that twelve percent of caregivers who stated
Merten, Sonja +2 more
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L’autisme, syndrome heterogene aux origines multiples, est defini comme un trouble de la communication et des interactions sociales. Depuis les annees 1990, l’elargissement des criteres diagnostiques et la mobilisation des associations ont change les representations et le degre de stigmatisation associe aux personnes diagnostiquees et a leur famille ...
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