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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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Gender Based Violence against Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cross-Sectional Studies

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020
This study aimed to systematically review studies that examined the prevalence of gender based violence (GBV) that included intimate partner violence (IPV) and non-IPV among women in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Muluken Dessalegn Muluneh, Virginia Stulz, L. Francis, K. Agho   +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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Prevalence of intimate partner violence against women and associated factors in Ethiopia

BMC Women's Health, 2020
Background Violence against women is a major public health problem that affects the physical, sexual, mental, and social wellbeing of more than one third of all women globally.
A. G. Chernet, K. T. Cherie
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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Lack of Mutual Respect in Relationship The Endangered Partner [PDF]

, 2006
Violence in a relationship and in a family setting has been an issue of concern to various interest groups and professional organizations. Of particular interest in this article is violence against women in a relationship.
A. A ALAO, Campbell J.C., Campbell J.C., Dahlberg L.L., Dattilio F.M., Gartner R., Goetting A., Jensen V., Kerry G.P., Njoroge N., Russel D., Statistics Canada, Statistics Canada, Stout K., Stout K., U.S. Department of Justice, Van Pelt N., Vetten L., Wilson M., Wilson M., Women in Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF)   +20 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.
openaire   +4 more sources

Determination of the factors affecting sexual violence against women in Turkey: a population-based analysis

BMC Women's Health, 2020
Background Sexual violence is one of the most investigated types of violence by national and international decision makers. The purpose of this study was to detect the factors that affect sexual violence against women in Turkey.
Ö. Alkan, Hasan Hüseyin Tekmanlı
semanticscholar   +1 more source