The article focuses on gender-based violence (GBV) and violence against women (VAW) in India. Topics discussed include how violence against girls and women has become routine in India, patriarchal beliefs in Indian society, and the occurrence of VAW despite women's glorification in many ancient ...
In India, 37% of women report lifetime physical, sexual, or psychological abuse also referred to as gender based violence (GBV) [2]. In Maharashtra, the estimate of GBV prevalence is 31% [3], and in Pune district, with a population of 9 million, GBV has been reported by 10%, [4]...
Gender-based Violence in an Indian Resettlement Colony Threatened with Re-eviction Introduction: Od tribals who migrated to India during the Indo-Pakistan partition of 1947 were resettled by the Government of India in 1987 in the Bhatti M... S Surjeet,I Maji,Y Khan,... - 《Medical Journal...
The lack of data from victims is one of the greatest obstacles to assessing the full impact of gender-based violence in African societies. When this information is available, it is not always sufficient. Using the ecological model, the author attempts to classify the various forms of violence ...
(2009). Shattered lives: Liberia ensuring care for rape survivors in health facilities. Retrieved October 1, 2017, from http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/article.cfm?id=3463&cat=special-report Medie, P. A. (2013). Fighting gender-based violence: The women’s movement and the...
Jennifer Ung Loh's article `Transgender identity, sexual versus gender ``rights'', and the tools of the Indian State' analyses the limited and caveated ways in which transgender subjects accrue constitutional rights. Ung Loh argues that certain forms of transgender identity, as opposed to `...
We’re advocating increased investment and policies and partnerships that tackle gender-based violence, in particular by addressing some of the systemic root causes, including harmful norms and stereotypes. And through Principle 2 of our People and Nature Policy (PDF 2.04MB) (Respecting and ...
Gender attitudes and violence among urban adolescent boys in India. Int J of Adolescence and Youth 2012;19:99e112.Das, Madhumita, Ravi Verma, Brian O'Connor, Sancheeta Ghosh, Sara Fewer, Maria Catrina Virata, and Elizabeth Miller (2012b) `Gender attitudes and violence among Urban adolescent ...
This offline-to-online continuum is also seen in controlling and violent behaviors, relationship abuse, crime, and exploitative malpractices.Gender-based violence is an all-pervasive form of violence, targeted or perpetuated toward a person because of their gender. This chapter aims to explore and ...
MUSCULAR NATIONALISM: GENDER, VIOLENCE AND EMPIRE IN INDIA AND IRELAND, 1914–2004doi:10.1080/01419870.2013.770899AgoramoorthyGovindasamyEthnic and Racial StudiesBanerjee, S. 2012 . Muscular Nationalism: Gender, Violence, and Empire in India and Ireland . New York: NYU Press....