Approaches to eliminating GBV
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- Involving men to tackle gender based violence
- ( A. Eriksson / African Women's Development & Communication Network , 2009)
- How can we tackle gender based violence? In 2001, the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) created an African network of male activists against gender-based violence. T...
- Lessons about preventing rape from South Africa
- ( D. Peacock;B. Khumalo / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK , 2007)
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In South Africa, only one in nine victims report rape and fewer than ten percent of reported rapes lead to a conviction. This paper draws out key lessons about rape in South Africa pointing to the ...
- Vulnerability, impact and action in human trafficking
- ( UN global initiative to fight trafficking , 2008)
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Issues such as disempowerment, social exclusion and economic vulnerability are the result of policies and practices that marginalise entire groups of people and make them vulnerable to ...
- Funding gender based violence programmes in South Africa
- ( D. Budlender;J. Kuhn / , 2007)
- Gender-based violence (GBV) remains a pressing concern in South Africa, with levels of rape, domestic violence and femicide unabated during its fourteen years of democracy. Despite this, civil society...
International response in Darfur must focus on survivors of sexual violence
- ( S Martin / Refugees International , 2007)
- Sexual violence defines the conflict in Darfur. This report argues that whilst the primary obstacles to preventing rape and assisting survivors are the perpetrators and the Sudanese government officia...
- To protect children, address gender and HIV and AIDS in early childhood
- ( D. Bhana; F.F. Brixen; G. MacNaughton; R. Zimmerman / Bernard van Leer Foundation , 2006)
- Gender discrimination and inequality is a key factor in the transmission of HIV and AIDS. Therefore, this paper argues, efforts to prevent AIDS through empowering girls and changing men’s behaviour sh...
- Stopping violence against women: a handbook for development practitioners
- ( United Nations Population Fund , 2006)
- Violence against women manifests itself in different ways in different societies - from psychological abuse and physical harm to early marriage and ritual slavery - and the pathways to success vary. T...
- Protecting and empowering vulnerable girls in Armenia, DRC, El Salvador, Ghana and India
- ( L. Rosales; F. Mwebe; K. Mikhailidi; R. Samuel; J. Jackson / World Vision , 2007)
- This briefing paper was prepared as a contribution to the meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on “The elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child”...
- Addressing violence against women in conflicts
- ( A. Brody / Eldis News Weblog , 2007)
- Violence against women (VAW) is being seen increasingly as the biggest obstacle to gender equality and quality of life for women on a global scale. Several new publications highlight the issue of VAW,...
- Lessons for best practice in confronting violence against women across cultures
- ( United Nations Population Fund , 2006)
- Violence against women is slowly becoming more and more an issue for public debate and action. This report documents 10 case studies from dirferent developing countries that provide examples and lesso...
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