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Showing 1 to 20 of 400 for “"violence against"”.
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Reforming institutional responses to violence against women
… (Avni, 1991), within which batterers use violence, threats of violence, isolation, and other tactics of abuse to enforce compliance with their rules. Battering has well-documented physical, psychological, social, and economic consequences for women. It flourishes within the …
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Violence against foreign-born women in Sweden
Violence against women (VAW) is an increasing public health concern. Prevalence of such violence may potentially be greater among foreign-born women due to lack of empowerment and other contributing factors. Research concerning violence against foreign-born women in Sweden is scarce. Thus, the …
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Violence against Women in Kashmir: Personal and Political
… the subversion and silencing of interpersonal violence against women in Kashmir due to a larger focus on political violence, both within the community and in academia, as well. A detailed examination of various forms of violence(s) faced by women has been carried out throughout the thesis, some …
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Workplace violence against registered nurses: an interpretive description
… nurses, are often victims of workplace violence. Unfortunately, little is known about the nurses' experience of violence. A research study was initiated to further explore the nurses' accounts of workplace violence so as to make dimensions of the nurses' experience visible and more fully …
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Daughters of Eve : violence against women in Pakistan
… was to conduct extensive research on domestic violence against women in Pakistan and to present the results in a comprehensive document. Some of the issues investigated through fieldwork and covered here include the social and cultural reasons for violence against women, the ways in which the …
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Intimate violence against women : a report on the incidence and correlates of intimate violence against women - an Mdantsane, Eastern Cape sample
… into the public domain. In this context intimate violence by men of their women partners, so long shrouded in silence, is now being hailed as one of our most serious and prevalent social problems. But despite this awareness the circumstances which underpin this sort of violence remain …
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Causes of gender-based violence against women at Enseleni Community
This study is about causes of gender-based violence against women, with special reference to eNseleni community. As a descriptive research, questionnaires were used for data collection. Samples of 50 informants who are considered to be victims of gender-based violence were drawn. Literature that …
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Women's perspectives : the role of alcohol in violence against women
… women thought alcohol played in their partners' violence to them, from the perspective of women who experienced violence from men partners.It aimed to: 1) question whether women blamed alcohol for their partners' violence, as anecdotal claims suggest, 2) establish whether the women made …
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Participants' and implementors' views on the adaptation of the Parenting for Lifelong Health Teen Programme to address both violence against children and violence against women
… of fathers for the Zimbabwean context. Violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC) intersect in various and damaging ways. Parenting programmes have been identified as a potentially successful way to deal with both simultaneously, given the effect of violence in the …
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Violence against women on the college campus: evaluating anti-violence programming.
Violence against women is a significant problem on America's college campuses. In response to this violence, many universities have developed direct service programs to assist the survivors of violence as well as educational programs to raise awareness about and/or reduce the likelihood of such …
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IMPERILED FEMININITY:RECONFIGURING GENDER IN A CONTEXT OF HEIGHTENED VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
This dissertation clarifies the manner in which violence against women is implicated in the re-constitution of gender in Chihuahua. Using data collected with a mixed methods, multi-staged protocol, this dissertation investigates how the routine threat of gender violence and the common presence of …
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Violence Against Architecture: The Lost Cultural Heritage of Syria and Iraq
… and Iraq that has been deliberately destroyed by violence. The act of destroying architecture and monuments in both Syria and Iraq, which is often-historical UNESCO protected, will invariably violate various laws, such as the 1954 Hague Convention or the Rome Statute. Since post-2011 Syria, all of …
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Tracing Violence Against Women from the Francoist Dictatorship to Democratic Spain
… of women’s rights through a specific analysis of violence against women. While democratization created the institutional framework for progress, this study contends that structural political change alone is insufficient to dismantle deeply entrenched patriarchal norms. By employing a triangulated …
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Faith-based interventions in addressing violence against women in Cape Town
Violence against women is a social reality in South Africa. In 2014, the country was named the world rape capital by media and humanitarian organizations because of the intensity of violence. Several legal reforms have been put in place to address such violence, which include the Domestic Violence …
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Gender based violence against men in Zambia compound of Choma,Southern province
While it is true that most gender-based violence occur against women, it is not true that women are the only victims and that men are the only perpetrators. Women are perpetrators of this violence against men just as men are. The difference however is that the rate at which women perpetrate this …
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Normalizing Violence Against Women: What Motivates People to Justify the Gender System?
It is possible that rape, and reactions to these victims, act to reinforce the gender system. The gender system is a network of practices meant to (1) differentiate men and women as two distinct categories and (2) organize and justify social inequalities based on these differences. People tend to …
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Family Feuds: The effect of income shocks on domestic violence against women
Este documento estudia la relación entre ingresos familiares y violencia doméstica en un país en desarrollo. Para ello, me enfoco en los municipios de Colombia con altos niveles de producción de café. Utilizando choques negativos en los precios del café como una fuente de variación exógena que …
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