Gender-Based Violence: Typology and Solutions

Gender-based Violence and Education

1 Gender-based violence (GBV) is the most extreme expression of unequal gender relations in society and one of the most widespread violations of human rights. While GBV disproportionally affects women and girls, it also affects men and boys. These abuses take place all over the world in homes, schools, work-places and communities. But GBV is preventable and education and educational institution...

Responding to gender-based violence in disasters.

To the Editor: In the editorial Responding to Gender-based Violence in Disasters: Grappling With Research Methods to Clear the Way for Planning, Rosborough et al discuss challenges to measuring and reporting on gender-based violence (GBV) in disasteraffected populations.1 The authors also comment on our research contribution, which documented an increase in GBV among female internally displaced...

A global overview of gender-based violence.

This paper provides an overview of the extent and nature of gender-based violence and its health consequences, particularly on sexual and reproductive health.

Preventing Gender-based Violence Post Disasters

Gender violence and psychopathology.

The focus of this article is to show that in Italy nowadays it is not important to relate psychopathology with violence. That is because it seems that it is more important to study gender and domestic violence as a social and cultural phenomenon than analyzing its psychopathological issues. Obviously, in accord with the literature there is a relationship about psychopatholgy and violence and th...