'Harmful' traditional practices: interventions to address gendered forms of violence against women and girls

School-Based Interventions to Prevent Violence Against Women & Girls

INTERACTIVE EXPERT PANEL Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICES TO WOMEN AND GIRLS VICTIMS/SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE

INTERACTIVE EXPERT PANEL Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls EMERGING PRACTICES IN PROVIDING SUPPORT SERVICES AND PRIMARY PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS

Prevention of violence against women and girls: lessons from practice.

This Series paper describes programming to prevent violence against women and girls, and emphasises the importance of systematic, sustained programming across the social ecology (ie, the delicate equilibrium of interacting social, institutional, cultural, and political contexts of people's lives) to transform gender-power inequalities. Effective prevention policy and programming is founded on f...

Characteristics of sexual violence against adolescent girls and adult women

BACKGROUND Sexual violence is considered a serious violation of human rights which affects mainly young women and adolescents. There is little information about the conditions under which sexual offences occur. We evaluated characteristics of sexual violence against adolescent girls and adult women. METHOD This is a quantitative, retrospective, descriptive study of sexual violence against ado...