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Pacific priorities for the prevention of violence against women and girls [PDF]

BMJ Global Health
Jane Fisher, Sara E Davies, Stephanie Copus Campbell, Kyllie Cripps, Asher Flynn, Saui'a Louise Mataia Milo, Nalini Singh, Jacqui True   +7 more
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Violence against women [PDF]

Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2015
Violence against women (VAW) is a major public health problem in the country. The problem is grossly under-reported. A number of factors have been blamed for crimes against women. An inefficient law enforcing machinery has often been targeted for the increasing number of cases being reported.
Uday Chaudhuri, Manjeet Singh Bhatia, Shruti Srivastava, Avdesh Sharma, Sonia Parial, Bohra N, Indira Sharma, Dinesh Kataria   +7 more
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Institutional ethics of care in Serbia during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study on the effects of the lockdown measures on girls and women trafficking survivors [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2022
Extreme situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic transparently show all the shortcomings of the Serbian system that should, in theory, provide support and protection to citizens in such circumstances.
Ćeriman Jelena, Hrnjak Jelena, Radoičić-Nedeljković Andrijana   +2 more
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On Violence Against Women [PDF]

Contexts, 2007
Lisa D. Brush, Angela J. Hattery, Earl Smith, Walter S. DeKeseredy   +3 more
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Violence against women [PDF]

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 2005
Violence against women is now well recognised as a public health problem and human rights violation of worldwide significance. It is an important risk factor for women's ill health, with far reaching consequences for both their physical and mental health.
Claudia Garcia-Moreno, Gunilla Krantz
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Economic abuse and its associations with symptoms of common mental disorders among women in a cross-sectional survey in informal settlements in Mumbai, India

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Domestic violence takes a range of interconnected forms, of which economic abuse is common, but less studied than others. We examine the prevalence of economic abuse, its determinants, and its association with symptoms of depression, anxiety ...
Suman Kanougiya, Nayreen Daruwalla, Lu Gram, Apoorwa Deepak Gupta, Muthusamy Sivakami, David Osrin   +5 more
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Measuring intimate partner violence risk: A national survey of Canadian police officers

Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being, 2020
This study examined the role of police in addressing intimate partner violence (IPV) and the type of strategies they apply across Canada based on a national survey of officers.
Michael D. Saxton, Peter G. Jaffe, Anne-Lee Straatman, Laura Olszowy, Myrna Dawson   +4 more
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Violence against women [PDF]

International Egyptian Journal of Nursing Sciences and Research, 2020
Perspective on violence against women and why the word "homewrecker" isn't a bad word but has a deeper meaning in victims of violence, following adultery.
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Creating a Tool for Assessing Domestic Violence Risk and Impact Among TANF Clients

Advances in Social Work, 2020
The Family Violence Option (FVO), a provision of the 1996 welfare legislation, allows states to waive certain program requirements for domestic violence (DV) survivors in order to protect them from danger or penalties.
Jordan J. Steiner, Laura Johnson, Andrea Hetling, Hsiu-Fen Lin, Judy L. Postmus   +4 more
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Intersectional tension: a qualitative study of the effects of the COVID-19 response on survivors of violence against women in urban India

BMJ Open, 2021
Objectives There is a concern worldwide that efforts to address the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic have affected the frequency and intensity of domestic violence against women.
David Osrin, Nayreen Daruwalla, Delan Devakumar, Mita Huq, Tanushree Das   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source