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Working with Youth to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls: Policy and Programming Brief
This policy brief makes recommendation for preventing violence and engaging young men at the following levels: individual (knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors), relationship (closer personal ones), community (settings and environments), and societal…
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…
Reproductive Health Matters: An international journal on sexual and reproductive health and rights
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM) is a peer-reviewed international open access journal. The journal explores themes across the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
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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Religion, Culture and Tradition: Strengthening Efforts to Eradicate Violence against Women
Created to support the work of rights advocates working in international and regional spaces who are confronting opposition to their efforts using arguments based on religion, culture and tradition.
Agency and Citizenship in a Context of Gender-based Violence
A pilot evaluation that explores how citizenship and agency among social activists can be fostered in contexts of urban violence at the local level.
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…
Global and regional estimates of violence against women: Prevalence and health effects of intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence
The report presents the first global systematic review of scientific data on the prevalence of two forms of violence against women: violence by an intimate partner (intimate partner violence) and sexual violence by someone other than a partner…
The Pitfalls of Protection: Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan
Since the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, violence against women has emerged as the single most important issue for Afghan gender politics. The Pitfalls of Protection, based on research conducted in Afghanistan between 2009…
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.