LAST MODIFIED: 26 October 2023 DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199756810-0309Introduction Gender-based violence (GBV) is a public health concern. GBV includes stalking, sexual assault, intimate partner/dating violence, and sexual harassment. Globally, between 4 percent and 17 percent of college women and 7 ...
Estimates by the World Health Organization indicate that 1 in 3 women—more than one billion people worldwide—have experienced some form of Gender-Based Violence (GBV). Violence Against Women (VAW) is a prominent subset of GBV, defined by the United Nations as any act “that results in, ...
doi:10.1353/ces.2023.a928881VIOLENCE against womenREFUGEESSEXUAL assaultAn introduction is presented in which editor discusses various articles within the issue on topics including sexual and gender-based violence; Armenian Women Refugees in the Post-Genocidal context and Sexual Violence...
Rape is a form of gender-based violence in which the line between coercion and consent is frequently blurred or contested. What happens when a court system broadens its definition of rape to include a broader range of coercive and poten...
1.1. Gender-based violence from a child-centred approach Traditionally, in research, the phenomenon of gender violence has been approached only from the standpoint of adults, especially practitioners and women, but the child’s perspective has not been included to a significant degree. In the past...
As expected, the gender score metric we created was able to separate man-like from woman-like patients based on gender-based division of labour and gender-based violence indicators, which clearly differs from biological sex, contributing important explanatory power in understanding TBI outcomes. The ...
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This year, 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence coincides with the world’s biggest men’s football event. For many, such sporting events are a time of great camaraderie, community, and national pride. But for those in an abusive relationship, it can also be a dangerous and fe...