Silence and Violence

Ending the silence on gun violence.

In an article published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) author David A. Brent and colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh School and Medicine and Harvard School of Public Health examine responses that have been proposed in the national media to address the issue of gun violence, including suicide and homicide. These proposals include: restri...

Ending the silence on gun violence … or silencing the debate?

Unreported cases of domestic violence against women: towards an epidemiology of social silence, tolerance, and inhibition.

D ata from different surveys indicate a high prevalence of domestic violence against women in all societies. In western countries it is estimated that about 25% of women experience intimate partner violence over their lifetimes. 3 However, prevalence data show only one side of the problem: the seriousness of the problem in terms of how widespread it is in our societies. Another side of the prob...

Suffering in silence: consequences of sexual violence within marriage among young women in Nepal

BACKGROUND Despite the grave consequences of sexual violence, and it's persistence both within and outside marriages, this subject has received relatively little attention from researchers, policy makers, and programme managers in Nepal. This paper explores the definition of sexual violence and its various forms and consequences as reported by young married women in Nepal. In addition, it descr...

Amani's Silence

Amani was a 24-year-old woman in her second year of nursing school in Jerusalem. She lived with her extended family, including her parents, grandparents, and six older brothers, who had emigrated from Syria more than 10 years earlier. They are religious Muslim Arabs who lived in an Arab village not far from our cancer center in Jerusalem. For more than a year, Amani had experienced symptoms of ...