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BMJ, 1998 Ed Susan Bewley, John Friend, Gillian Mezey RCOG Press, £35, pp 355 ISBN 1 900364 03 4 The family is consistently presented as the moral foundation of our society, and yet, apart from the police and the military, the family is society's most violent grouping and the home its most violent setting.
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Brazilian policy responses to violence against women: government strategy and the help-seeking behaviors of women who experience violence. [PDF]
, 2012 Over the past three decades, international covenants have been signed and countries have implemented strategies and legislation to address violence against women.
Kiss, Ligia +5 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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BMJ Open, 2020 Objectives Domestic violence against women harms individuals, families, communities and society. Perpetrated by intimate partners or other family members, its overlapping forms include physical, sexual and emotional violence, control and neglect.
Lu Gram +4 more
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VIOLENCE AGAINST ELDERLY WOMEN*
Cogitare Enfermagem, 2023 ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the understanding of older women about violence in this age group. Method: Qualitative research carried out between November 2021 and January 2022 with 40 women over 60 years old, attended in the Primary Health Care Network, in a medium-sized municipality in the interior of the state of São Paulo - Brazil.
Ademara Aparecida de Oliveira +5 more
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MEDICO-LEGAL ASSESSMENT OF PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ASSAULTS' ALLEGATIONS AMONG ADOLESCENT AND ADULT FEMALES REFERRED TO MEDICOLEGAL DEPARTMENT OF MINISTRY OF JUSTICE AT ALEXANDRIA: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY [PDF]
The Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences and Applied Toxicology, 2020 Background: Violence against women (VAW) is a universal crime cutting across cultural and religious barriers violating females' human rights. The aim of the study is to assess physical and sexual assaults allegations of adolescent and adult females ...
Heba Menessi +2 more
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Wellcome Open Research, 2019 Background: We describe the development of a theory of change for community mobilisation activities to prevent violence against women and girls. These activities are part of a broader program in urban India that works toward primary, secondary, and ...
Nayreen Daruwalla +8 more
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Focusing on men to eliminate violence against women
Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2017 The evolution of the definition of “violence against women” in international human rights law has increasingly focussed on gender-based discrimination against women as the result of structural inequalities between men and women.
Cristina Oddone
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Freedom-deprived women: social representations of prison, violence, and their consequences [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2020 Objective: To understand the social representations that women deprived of their freedom have of imprisonment, violence, and their consequences. Method: An exploratory-descriptive qualitative study with 15 women from a female penitentiary in the State ...
Zeyne Alves Pires Scherer +5 more
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Violence against Amazon women [PDF]
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2009 This quantitative and exploratory study analyzed violence against Amazon women presented in print media according to type and severity, and whether aggressors fell under the Maria da Penha law. A total of 181 issues of a regional newspaper were consulted.
Lima, Vera Lúcia de Azevedo +6 more
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