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How the Canadian Government Continues to Enable Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls

Canadian Journal for the Academic Mind
Most Canadians are aware of the injustices Indigenous women and girls have faced and continue to face. However, their lack of understanding of how the Canadian Government, a supposed proud enthusiast of multiculturalism and cohabitation, deliberately ...
Abigail Olmstead
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Ending violence against Indigenous peoples in Canada: a healthcare responsibility [PDF]

The Lancet Regional Health. Americas
Summary: By foregrounding the embodiment of colonial dispossession–how the body feels colonialism–this article theorises violence against Indigenous peoples in Canada, positioning it firmly within the purview of healthcare.
Jessica Kolopenuk
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Investigating on the Relation among the Right to Education, Acquisition of Life Skills and Reduction of Violence Against Children (VAC) [PDF]

فقه و حقوق خانواده, 2023
Children, due to vulnerability and specifically their physical weakness and other their disability are considered as one of the groups that are exposed to different types of violence.
Shahram Zarneshan, Mousa Karami, Reyhane Zandi   +2 more
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Anthropological Contributions to International Legal Approaches to Violence Against Indigenous Women

AJIL Unbound, 2021
Since the early 1990s, the law and development paradigm of “violence against women” (VAW) has framed gender-based violence against girls and women, especially intimate partner violence, as a grave violation of women's fundamental human rights and a major
Rachel Sieder
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“It will always continue unless we can change something”: consequences of intimate partner violence for indigenous women, children, and families [PDF]

European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2014
Background: Violence against indigenous women and girls is endemic, yet the absence of research on the consequences of this violence from the perspectives of women presents a profound barrier to the development of knowledge, along with violence ...
Catherine E. Burnette, Clare Cannon
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Assessing essential service provision for prevention and management of violence against women in a remote indigenous community in Amantaní, Peru

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2023
Background Women living in indigenous communities in Peru currently experience extremely high rates of intimate partner violence (IPV). Over the past 10 years, there has been a large multi-sectoral initiative to establish a national network of Centros de
Maria Calderon, Carla Cortez-Vergara, Laura Brown, Hattie Lowe, Blenda Abarca, Marta Rondon, Jenevieve Mannell   +6 more
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Resisting Transhistorical Violence: Fringe and Art Activism

Forum, 2023
Between 1587 and 1589, Netherlandish artist Jan van der Straet engraved a series of plates entitled New Inventions of Modern Times. One, Allegory of America, portrays an Indigenous woman in a feathered headdress and skirt eagerly welcoming Florentine ...
M. Bryn Brody
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Decolonising violence against women research: a study design for co-developing violence prevention interventions with communities in low and middle income countries (LMICs)

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background There has been substantial progress in research on preventing violence against women and girls (VAWG) in the last 20 years. While the evidence suggests the potential of well-designed curriculum-based interventions that target known risk ...
Jenevieve Mannell, Safua Akeli Amaama, Ramona Boodoosingh, Laura Brown, Maria Calderon, Esther Cowley-Malcolm, Hattie Lowe, Angélica Motta, Geordan Shannon, Helen Tanielu, Carla Cortez Vergara   +10 more
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Shock and Awe: Trauma as the New Colonial Frontier

Humanities, 2016
The health of Indigenous girls in Canada is often framed and addressed through health programs and interventions that are based on Western values systems that serve to further colonize girls’ health and their bodies.
Natalie Clark
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Community mobilisation to prevent violence against women and girls in eastern India through participatory learning and action with women’s groups facilitated by accredited social health activists: a before-and-after pilot study

BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2020
Background Almost one in three married Indian women have ever experienced physical, sexual, or emotional violence from husbands in their lifetime. We aimed to investigate the preliminary effects of community mobilisation through participatory learning ...
Nirmala Nair, Nayreen Daruwalla, David Osrin, Suchitra Rath, Sumitra Gagrai, Rebati Sahu, Hemanta Pradhan, Megha De, Gauri Ambavkar, Nibha Das, G. Pramila Dungdung, Damini Mohan, Bahadur Munda, Vijay Singh, Prasanta Tripathy, Audrey Prost   +15 more
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