This impacts the rate at which people speak out and report incidents of violence. This has also made it difficult to obtain accurate data on the actual number of women who die from intimate or non-intimate partner abuse in the country. THE PREVALENCE OF GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE WORLDWIDE Section...
mind and body, self and society. To me, we are not good unless we also do some good, not in a guilt racked, works oriented, aid-based sense of charity – but a transformational change that spills out, from oneself, onto the streets, into communities, makes waves, affects structures,...
The spread of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Sub-Sharan Africa has provided a new arena for gender-based violence (GBV). Unfortunately, the growth of ICT has out-paced legal developments to regulate it. In this article we explore the legal responses to the phenomenon of no...
Thus, the II for a year is calculated as the number of times articles from that journal are cited during that year, divided by the number of articles that journal published that year. The CHL is a measure of the longevity of the frequency of citations to articles in the journal, that i...
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...
305 306 Chapter 11 1 Introduction Sexual and gender-based violence during conflict and periods of repression has been a problem of enormous magnitude in every region of the globe.1 While not merely an African problem, sexual violence has been committed in epidemic proportions in many parts of ...
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...
摘要: ObjectivesTo examine how work-related mobility among female sex workers (FSWs) is associated with gender-based violence (GBV) in Iringa, Tanzania.关键词: gender-based violence, female sex workers, mobility, Tanzania DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022621 ...
The World Bank Group released its new Gender Strategy 2024-2030 earlier this year with three key aims: ending gender-based violence, expanding economic opportunities, and engaging more women as leaders. This article is free to read - just register or sign in ...
The protection of women from gender-based violence is neither enshrined in the EU treaties nor in the Charter of Fundamental Rights, a fact that has not prevented the EU from taking action to counteract the offences related to violence against women. The action of the EU has been mainly devot...