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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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Violence against women during covid-19 pandemic restrictions
British medical journal, 2020 Protections for women and girls must be built into response ...
Elisabeth Roesch +3 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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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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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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Journal of Sex Research, 2020 Gender-based violence (GBV) against women and girls is pervasive and has negative consequences for sexual and reproductive health (SRH). In this systematic review of reviews, we aimed to synthesize research about the SRH outcomes of GBV for adolescent ...
Rose Grace Grose +4 more
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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) +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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Access to Justice For Women: India's Response to Sexual Violence in Conflict and Social Upheaval [PDF]
, 2015 A 2014 report by the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women on gender-based crimes describes the female experience in India as consisting of a "continuum of violence...from the 'womb to the tomb.'" According to Indian government data, a woman is ...
Angana P. Chatterji +3 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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