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  Where is the money to address gender-based violence?

  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 organisations (CSOs) working in the sector find themselves facing a deepening funding crisis.
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  Fear, violence and sexual violence in a Gauteng juvenile correctional centre for males

  Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2007

  Violence, described as endemic to South African Correctional Centres is generally under-reported and a severe hindrance to the Department of Correctional Services’ current and ambitious vision to reduce re-offending through rehabilitating offenders.
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  Women on the run: female survivors of torture amongst Zimbabwean asylum seekers and refugees in South Africa

  Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006

  Large numbers of Zimbabwean women are fleeing their homes and even their country to avoid violence. This report was written to coincide with South Africa's 'Sixteen days on gender activism'. It shows that a significant proportion of the women who have fled Zimbabwe for South Africa have experienced state torture.
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  Acceptance of violence amongst female learners in rural high schools of Kwazulu Natal

  Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Center, 2006

  Gender is a culture-specific construct, and the unequal power balance in gender relations that favours males has been shown to be associated with the transmission of HIV/AIDS. This qualitative study explored the views of female high school learners in Kwazulu Natal (KZN) about gender and sexual relations.
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  Taking stock update: Afghan women and girls seven years on

  Womankind, 2008

  Seven years after the fall of the Taliban regime, Afghanistan is still one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman. It has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world, one of the highest rates of domestic violence and is perhaps the only country where suicide rates are higher among women than men.
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  Integration of female immigrants in labour market and society: policy assessment and policy recommendations

  FeMiPol, 2008

  Migration flows to EU countries during the last few decades indicate a growth in feminisation, with female migrants increasingly entering informal labour markets in care, health, domestic services and the sex industry.
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  Demonstrating legislative leadership: the introduction of Rwanda’s gender-based violence bill

  Hunt Alternatives Fund, 2008

  In August 2006, members of Rwanda’s Chamber of Deputies debated a landmark piece of legislation. The “Draft Law on Prevention, Protection and Punishment of Any Gender-Based Violence,” though not yet adopted, could become the first comprehensive legal framework in Rwanda’s history to address gender-based violence.
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  Gender-based sexual violence against teenage girls in the Middle East

  Child Rights Information Network, 2007

  This paper is an analysis of the existing gender-based sexual violence against teenage girls in the Middle East. It is a comparative study that analyses the realities of early marriages and sexual abuse in Lebanon, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Yemen.
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  Iraqi refugee women and youth in Jordan: reproductive health findings a snap shot from the field

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2008

  This paper presents the problems facing Iraqi refugees in Jordan, highlighting the plight of women and children. The authors discuss their first hand picture of difficulties faced by displaced, abandoned, Iraqis. The focus of the document is on the lack of reproductive health care and other needs.
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  Intimate partner violence against women in rural Vietnam – different socio-demographic factors are associated with different forms of violence: need for new intervention guidelines?

  BMC Public Health, 2008

  This population-based study published in BMC public health, investigates the different forms, magnitude and risk factors of men’s violence against women in intimate relationships in a rural part of northern Vietnam and whether a difference in risk factors affected the different forms of violence.

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