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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, Edson Arthur Scherer, Manoel Antonio dos Santos, Jacqueline de Souza, Sandra Cristina Pillon, Nikolas Pires Scherer   +5 more
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Speciesist bias in AI -- How AI applications perpetuate discrimination and unfair outcomes against animals [PDF]

, 2022
Massive efforts are made to reduce biases in both data and algorithms in order to render AI applications fair. These efforts are propelled by various high-profile cases where biased algorithmic decision-making caused harm to women, people of color, minorities, etc.
arxiv   +1 more source

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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A theory of change for community interventions to prevent domestic violence against women and girls in Mumbai, India [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

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, Surinder Jaswal, Prakash Fernandes, Preethi Pinto, Ketaki Hate, Gauri Ambavkar, Bhaskar Kakad, Lu Gram, David Osrin   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vulnerability to violence against women or girls during COVID-19 in Uganda

BMC Public Health, 2023
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, gender-based violence (GBV) was reported to have increased worldwide. We build on existing literature to examine the factors that increased vulnerability to GBV during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda.
Paul Bukuluki, Peter Kisaakye, Grace Bulenzi-Gulere, Beatrice Mulindwa, Dan Bazira, Evelyn Letiyo, Hellen Nviiri Laetitia Namirembe, Isabella Schmidt, Pamela Nabukhonzo Kakande, Simon Nissling   +9 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
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence, pattern, and predictors of formal help-seeking for intimate partner violence against women: findings from India’s cross-sectional National Family Health Surveys-3 (2005–2006) and 4 (2015–2016)

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Help-seeking for intimate partner violence (IPV) requires women to disclose their experiences. For policymakers, low help-seeking threatens the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of gender equality, good health, and wellbeing.
Suman Kanougiya, Muthusamy Sivakami, Nayreen Daruwalla, David Osrin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tactical Reframing of Online Disinformation Campaigns Against The Istanbul Convention [PDF]

, 2021
In March 2021, Turkey withdrew from The Istanbul Convention, a human-rights treaty that addresses violence against women, citing issues with the convention's implicit recognition of sexual and gender minorities. In this work, we trace disinformation campaigns related to the Istanbul Convention and its associated Turkish law that circulate on divorced ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Q fever outbreak in the terraced vineyards of Lavaux, Switzerland

New Microbes and New Infections, EarlyView., 2014
Abstract Coxiella burnetii infection (Q fever) is a widespread zoonosis with low endemicity in Switzerland, therefore no mandatory public report was required. A cluster of initially ten human cases of acute Q fever infections characterized by prolonged fever, asthenia and mild hepatitis occurred in 2012 in the terraced vineyard of Lavaux ...
C. Bellini, I. Magouras, C. Chapuis‐Taillard, O. Clerc, E. Masserey, G. Peduto, O. Péter, S. Schaerrer, G. Schuepbach, G. Greub   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Building strength for the long haul toward liberation: What psychology can contribute to the resilience of communities targeted by state‐sanctioned violence

American Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 3-4, Page 475-492, December 2022., 2022
Abstract State‐sanctioned violence (SSV) has resounding effects on entire populations, and marginalized communities have long persisted in the work toward liberation despite continued SSV. This paper aims to bridge the gap between the vast scholarship on resilience and the practical challenge of sustaining and thriving in communities targeted by SSV ...
Kris T. Gebhard, Stephanie Hargrove, Tahani Chaudhry, Syeda Y. Buchwach, Lauren B. Cattaneo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source