Violence against children can take a number of forms including neglect and physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, economic violence, and exploitation. While many organisations and individuals are active in research on violence against children, the lack of an internationally agreed ‘gold standard’ on...
1 Of the studies that evaluate sexual violence in the DRC, the majority do not include all forms of sexual violence,2,3 are largely qualitative,4-6 or evaluate patients presenting to medical care,7 which comprise a biased, nonrandomized sample. In many settings, sexual violence survivors ...
violence against childrenconsequences of violence in societyThis abstract is based on materials collected and analyzed during the project "Violence against Women in Tajikistan" which was implemented during 1999–2000. The project was completed with methodological and financial support of the World Health ...
To end violence against children, UNICEF is calling for governments to take urgent action and support such measures as adopting well-coordinated national action plans, and educating children, parents, teachers, and community members to recognize violence in all its many forms and report it safely....
Not all the children who experience some type of violence in the family context will inevitably become potential abusers in the future. Nevertheless, the current study has shown that exposure to family violence is a characteristic of many abusive adolescents. Hence, more work is needed with ...
Children carry out violent actions against their siblings or their reference companions. With parents they tend to be children who appear very split in behavior; they collude with one or the other parent and often they tend to please the stronger parent, because they are obviously afraid, ...
because the police have insufficient resources to support the training of officers to conduct interviews using evidence-based practice [8]. In Kenya, the forms used to record the crime include little space to record the survivor’s account. Further, a culture of impunity that silences many ...
Lifetime’s Emmy award-winning Stop Violence Against Women Public Affairs campaign brings together leading advocacy organizations, women directly affected by violence and political leaders to place a national spotlight on ending the vast problems of dome
Similarly, while we acknowledge that VAWG can take on many forms, our sample only includes coverage of physical violence. This narrowing of scope of VAWG constitutes a limitation to the study as the Vienna Violence Against Women Declaration does include non-physical violence as well. As noted ...
That such incidents of violence against children were self-reported at all in the surveys is surprising; the results suggest the presence of a significant under-reporting of a child protection problem that requires further investigation. Given there is a strong association between child abuse and ...