Investigating sexual violence and abuse

Military sexual trauma: violence and sexual abuse.

Military sexual trauma includes sexual assault and sexual harassment in military settings by intimate partners and active duty personnel. Such violence triggers a syndrome of episodic, clustered, psychological and physiological symptoms that may be fatal. Despite its pervasiveness, many clinicians fail to recognize as many as 95% of cases among veterans and active duty personnel. Many victims r...

[Public health--violence and sexual abuse].

Violence, sexual abuse and health in Greenland.

The purposes of the study were to analyse the lifetime prevalence of violence and sexual abuse among the Inuit in Greenland and to study the associations between health and having been the victim of violence or sexual abuse. Associations were studied with specific attention to possible differences between women and men. Further, response rates were analysed specifically in order to understand c...

Homeless in Dhaka: Violence, Sexual Harassment, and Drug-abuse

Bangladesh has experienced one of the highest urban population growth rates (around 7% per year) over the past three decades. Dhaka, the capital city, attracts approximately 320,000 migrants from rural areas every year. The city is unable to provide shelter, food, education, healthcare, and employment for its rapidly-expanding population. An estimated 3.4 million people live in the overcrowded ...

4. Violence, sexual abuse and torture in prisons

Key points • Violence in prisons is often clandestine because of the fear of reprisal when it is reported. • Because violence is not brought into the open, it is easily overlooked or underestimated. • Authorities are obliged to protect prisoners against violence, which must not constitute an additional punishment on top of deprivation of liberty. • Violence begets violence, so prison violence i...