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Equality Now
Equality Now has been using the law to protect and promote the human rights of women and girls around the world since 1992. Equality Now advocates locally, nationally and internationally to advance Legal Equality and Justice for Girls, and to End Sex…
Tools to Assess and Mitigate GBV among Urban Refugees
These tools, currently in pilot form, help practitioners to assess and respond to urban refugees' risks of gender-based violence.
Mean Streets: Identifying and Responding to Urban Refugees' Risks of Gender-Based Violence
An analysis of the unique protection challenges and opportunities afforded by urban settings, including the risks specific to different groups.
Kampala: Supporting Refugee Women Engaged in Sex Work through the Peer Education Model & Bringing Mobile Health Clinics to Refugee Neighborhoods: Interventions for Strengthening GBV Prevention and Response for Urban Refugees
In Kampala, the WRC partnered with Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU), an organization that provides integrated SRH and GBV services to Ugandans, including Ugandan sex workers. The goal was to expand their services to be inclusive of refugee women.…
Global Guidance on Addressing School-Related Gender-Based Violence
The Global Guidance provides key information to governments, policy-makers, teachers, practitioners and civil society who wish to take concrete action against school-related gender-based violence. It introduces approaches, methodologies, tools and…
The Effects of School-Related Gender-Based Violence on Academic Performance: Evidence from Botswana, Ghana, and South Africa
The present study aims to identify and quantify the effects of bullying on academic performance using the datasets collected from surveys conducted in 2011 in Botswana, Ghana, and South Africa. It adopts an analytical
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Gender-based Violence in Education
This paper was commissioned by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report as background information to assist in drafting the 2015 report.
Unsafe Schools: A Literature Review of School-Related Gender-Based Violence in Developing Countries
Provides a wealth of information and should prove to be a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners alike. Although this report is by no means exhaustive, it is indeed our hope that it will stimulate discussion and challenge policymakers…
Literature Review on School-Related Gender-Based Violence: How it is Defined and Studied
This literature review of definitions and methods used to study school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) was commissioned by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Bureau for Africa, Office of Sustainable Development, Education…
Gender-based Violence and Child Protection among Syrian Refugees in Jordan, with a Focus on Early Marriage
This assessment was conducted to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of the risks that Syrian refugee families — especially women and girls — face in Jordan, and to provide a deeper understanding of Syrian urban refugees’ knowledge, attitudes,…