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    Is Violence against Women Preventable? Findings from the SASA! Study summarized for general audiences

    Raising Voices, 2015
    This report showcases the findings from the SASA! study, a cluster randomized control trial (RCT) of a community mobilization intervention to prevent violence against women and reduce HIV risk in Kampala, Uganda.
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    Through the Voice of Faith: learnings to inspire domestic violence prevention through faith institutions

    Raising Voices, 2013
    This Learning Paper describes a domestic violence prevention initiative driven through the voice of the Catholic Church of Uganda. The learnings from this initiative have provoked broad reflection about the power of faith in many countries of the Global South, and thus the potential of accelerating positive change at scale through effective collaboration with faith institutions.
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    SASA! An Activist Kit for Preventing Violence against Women and HIV

    2008
    SASA! is a comprehensive and user-friendly program tool to help organizations, institutions, and groups interested in mobilizing communities to prevent violence against women and HIV
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    Gender assessment of the refugee and migration crisis in Serbia and fYR Macedonia

    UN Women, 2016
    Over one million men, women, and children travelled to Western Europe to claim asylum in 2015, with many transiting through Turkey, Greece, and the Western Baltics on their way north.
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    Women and girls failed: the Burundian refugee response in Tanzania

    Refugees International, 2015
    Since April 2015, political instability and violence has rocked Burundi, forcing an estimated 220,000 people to flee to neighbouring countries. Approximately half of these refugees are women, and around half of the many women who reported gender-based violence (GBV) upon reaching refugee camps in Tanzania required post-rape care.
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    Women on the run: first-hand accounts of refugees fleeing El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico

    United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2015
    The refugee crisis currently playing out around the world is almost unprecedented in living memory. Not since World War II have so many people been forcibly displaced. While conflict in Syria and the resulting flows of people seeking safety in Europe is dominating the headlines, Central America is witness to yet another protection crisis.
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    Empowered and safe: economic strengthening for girls in emergencies

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2014
    Even in times of peace and stability, adolescent girls are among the most vulnerable members of society in low-income countries. In times of emergency, this vulnerability is multiplied, with girls facing various rights violations, including high rates of gender-based violence (GBV).
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    Global report on trafficking in persons 2014

    United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2014
    Human trafficking, the forced movement and exploitation of persons, is the basest of crimes and yet remains prevalent in every region of the globe, while offenders too often escape prosecution. That is the perspective of this report produced by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and mandated by the UN General Assembly in 2010.
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    Initial Assessment Report: protection risks for women and girls in the European refugee and migrant crisis

    United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2016
    Not since World War II has Europe seen such massive movements of refugees and migrants fleeing from armed conflict, persecution, and pervasive sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Almost one million people arrived through the Mediterranean between January and November of 2015, the vast majority of which came through Greece, and often via Turkey.
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    Meet the Nigerian woman taking on Boko Haram

    2015
    In December 2013, former radio journalist-turned-civil society activist Hafsat Mohammed was on a public mini-bus when it was attacked by Boko Haram insurgents in northeastern Nigeria. After ordering the passengers off the bus, the insurgents opened fire, killing five, and taking two women hostage in their pick-up truck.

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