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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, Souza, Maria de Lourdes de, Monticelli, Marisa, Oliveira, Marília de Fátima Vieira de, Souza, Carlos Benedito Marinho de, Costa, Carlos Alberto Leal da, Brüggemann, Odaléa Maria   +6 more
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Measuring the psychological drivers of participation in collective action to address violence against women in Mumbai, India [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research, 2020
Background: A growing number of global health interventions involve community members in activism to prevent violence against women (VAW), but the psychological drivers of participation are presently ill-understood. We developed a new scale for measuring
Lu Gram, Suman Kanougiya, Nayreen Daruwalla, David Osrin   +3 more
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Using Participatory Learning and Action in a Community-Based Intervention to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls in Mumbai’s Informal Settlements

International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2020
For over 3 decades, participatory learning and action (PLA) techniques have been prominent in formative and evaluative studies in community-based development programs in the Global South.
Proshant Chakraborty, Nayreen Daruwalla, Apoorwa Deepak Gupta, Unnati Machchhar, Bhaskar Kakad, Shilpa Adelkar, David Osrin   +6 more
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Measuring the psychological drivers of participation in collective action to address violence against women in Mumbai, India [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research, 2020
Background: A growing number of global health interventions involve community members in activism to prevent violence against women (VAW), but the psychological drivers of participation are presently ill-understood. We developed a new scale for measuring
Lu Gram, Suman Kanougiya, Nayreen Daruwalla, David Osrin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Violence against Women at Work

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022
Abstract We link every police report in Finland to administrative data to identify violence between colleagues and the economic consequences for victims, perpetrators, and firms. This new approach to observe when one colleague attacks another overcomes previous data constraints limiting evidence on this phenomenon to self-reported ...
Adams-Prassl, A, Huttunen, K, Nix, E, Zhang, N   +3 more
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Violence against Canadian Women [PDF]

BMC Women's Health, 2004
HEALTH ISSUE: Exposure to violence as children or as adults places a woman at higher risk of poor health outcomes, both physical and psychological. Abused women use more health care services and have poorer social functioning than non-abused women. Knowledge of the prevalence of violence against women, and of which women are at risk, should assist in ...
Maclean Heather, Cohen Marsha M
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Estimating the costs of gender-based violence in the European Union [PDF]

, 2014
The purpose of the study is to identify and recommend appropriate methodologies to measure the cost of gender-based and intimate partner violence in EU-28 Member States.
European Institute of Gender Equality (EIGE), Olive, Philippa, Walby, Sylvia   +2 more
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Domestic violence against women [PDF]

BMJ, 1995
Two abused women were recently freed from prison in Britain. Emma Humphreys and Sara Thornton had previously been found guilty of murdering violent partners and had received mandatory life sentences. Humphreys's conviction was quashed by judges in the Court of Appeal, whose ruling recognised the months of cruelty she had experienced from her boyfriend,
J, Richardson, G, Feder
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The European Added Value of a Directive on Combatting Violence Against Women: Annex 2 Economic Aspects and Legal Perspectives for Action at the European Level [PDF]

, 2013
The paper investigates the economic cost of violence against women for the EU and compares the costs of action and inaction. Violence against women is estimated to cost the EU EUR 226 billion each year, including EUR 45 billion for services and EUR 24 ...
Olive, P., Walby, S.
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Prevalence of domestic violence against women in informal settlements in Mumbai, India: a cross-sectional survey

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, David Osrin, Nayreen Daruwalla, Suman Kanougiya, Apoorwa Gupta   +4 more
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