Characterizing the linkage between violence against women and HIV/AIDS in the Dominican RepublicBetances Julian MA, Zaida BethaniaGalvan, SergiaBrown, Jaweer
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is a global observance and not a public holiday. Background On November 25, 1960, three sisters, Patria Mercedes Mirabal, María Argentina Minerva Mirabal and Antonia María Teresa Mirabal, were assassinated in the Dominican Republic on...
Sahana Sarkar and Benson Rajan interviewed 30 Indian women survivors of online violence. They show cyber violence as an extension of physical violence against women. One of the survivors said, “I started getting emails describing how I was looking in the morning on my way to the office. They...
Obstetric Violence as Reproductive Governance in the Dominican RepublicDominican RepublicRepública Dominicanaadaptive preferencebirthdiscriminacióndiscriminationmaltratomistreatmentnacimientoobstetric violenceA human rights violation, obstetric violence encompasses numerous forms of mistreatment against women giving birth in...
In the last twenty years, Bolivia has introduced a set of public policy initiatives to prevent, punish and eradicate gender-based violence. Drawing on the results of her research on violence against women in the Max Paredes Macrodistrict of the Municipality of La Paz, the author of this articl...
services among sex workers, MSM and transgender women [23,31,32,33]. In resource-constrained settings, such as those that presently exist in Latin America and the Caribbean, the effects of GBV could reverse the gains achieved against HIV and derail the response to the epidemic in the region...
In year 2007, Venezuela was the first country in the world to use the term “obstetric violence” and it was considered as a punishable form of violence against women [VAW] (República Bolivariana de Venezuela, 2007). “Obstetric violence” was defined as ”the appropriation of women´s ...
When speaking of violence against children in the country, a study often cited is one conducted in 2013 by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Cambodia, and the United States Centers for Disease, Control and Prevention. According to the Cambodia’s ...
Societal acceptance of domestic violence against women is widespread in developing countries, with 36 per cent of people believing it is justified in certain situations.
The goals of this study are threefold: 1) To report the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) among currently married or cohabiting women in 10 developing countries; 2) To identify key characteristics in each country including couple characteristics associated with experiencing physical or sexu...