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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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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
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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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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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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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Violence Against Women

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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DETERMINING THE TYPES AND SEVERITY OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Medicine, 2021
Violence has a negative impact on various aspects of women's health, including quality of life, social functioning, physical health and is one of the most considerate human rights issues in Afghanistan.
Seraj Palwasha
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Correction: Modelling collective action to change social norms around domestic violence: social dilemmas and the role of altruism

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00771 ...
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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