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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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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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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
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Drawing the Line: How African, Caribbean and White British Women Live Out Psychologically Abusive Experiences [PDF]

, 2013
The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Violence Against Women, 19 (9):1104-32, Sept 2013 by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2013.
Feder, G, Rivas, Carol, Moira Kelly, Rivas, C., Rivas, C, Kelly, M, Kelly, M., Carol Rivas, Feder, G., Kelly, Moira, Gene Feder, Feder, Gene   +11 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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How safe are women? Constructing a cross-national index on the foundations of women’s safety

Data & Policy
This article introduces the global Women’s Safety Index (WSI), outlining its rationale, purpose, and potential applications. The Index consist of three dimensions: Equity, Protection, and Resources, identified as foundational to women’s safety.
Katie Buchhorn, Jacqui True, Sara Davies, Rafat Mahmood, Phyu Phyu Oo   +4 more
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Modelling collective action to change social norms around domestic violence: social dilemmas and the role of altruism

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021
Interventions promoting collective action have been used to prevent domestic violence in a range of settings, but their mechanisms of operation remain unclear.
Lu Gram, Rolando Granados, Eva M. Krockow, Nayreen Daruwalla, David Osrin   +4 more
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The ethics of knowledge sharing: a feminist examination of intellectual property rights and open-source materials in gender transformative methodologies

Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics
Debates on intellectual property rights and open source frequently stem from the business sector and higher education, where goals are typically oriented toward profit, academic status, credit, and/or reputation.
Leah Goldmann, Alice Welbourn, Diane Gillespie, Nastnet Ghebrebhran, Lufuno Barro, Sara Siebert, Hawa Kagoya, Lori Michau, Anjalee Kohli, Tina Musuya, Sonia Rebecca Kusiima   +10 more
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The shifting landscape of medicalization of female genital mutilation among the Maasai community in Kenya

Discover Public Health
Background Shift in FGM including medicalization among the Maasai communities call for deeper understanding. We sought to determine the nuances around medicalization of FGM in the Maasai communities.
Samuel Kimani, Wairimu Munyinyi-Wahome, Fridah Wawira Nyagah   +2 more
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A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE ON THE IMPACT OF EXPOSURE TO INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH

International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 2014
Children living in homes where intimate partner violence occurs are often exposed to such violence through witnessing, seeing its effects, hearing about it, or otherwise being made aware that violence is taking place between parents or caregivers ...
Sibylle Artz, Margaret A Jackson, Katherine R Rossiter, Alicia Nijdam-Jones, István Géczy, Sheila Porteous   +5 more
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