An examination of the nexus of security, insecurity and health shows that security is a prerequisite for health. The many and varied ways that armed violence--including threats of armed violence--can affect people's health can be documented by formal studies; however, valuable data also exist in other reports, such as media reports. The health community needs to recognize that people's insecuri...

women are faced with violence in the private sphere (by their father, husband) and in the society (public sphere). regarding irretrievable impacts of violence on women and society, governments have not considered the matter seriously. the objective of this article is to present research findings on disguised violence that is violence in the family (domestic violence) which for many reasons are ...

Channon, Alex and Phipps, Catherine. 2017. ‘Pink Gloves Still Give Black Eyes: Exploring ‘Alternative’ Femininity in Women’s Combat Sports’, Martial Arts Studies 3, 24-37. combat sports, femininity, gender, martial arts, women. Alex Channon is Senior Lecturer in Physical Education and Sport Studies at the University of Brighton, UK. His research explores various aspects of the relationship betw...

Gender violence poses a classic anthropological dilemma apropos human universals versus culturally relative concepts and values. But, both in research and in policy and associated programs of prevention and intervention, we need to try to move beyond this impasse, looking at the interaction and translation of local and global meanings in the transnational relations of our world and at the dynam...

this qualitative study presents women’s perceptions of domestic violence and their coping strategies based on self-narratives collected from a small sample in iran. by limiting women’s access to life opportunities, domestic violence is a major obstacle to social, economic, and political equity and by extension to development. violence against women goes beyond being a personal or a private issu...

Colonialism acts as an incubator of genocidal violence due to factors such as severe human rights violations and political oppression marked by Western capitalism and neocolonialism. Traces of colonial ideologies are found in the approaches or discourses of organizations such as the United Nations, the World Bank, and International Monetary Fund. The criticisms of acclaimed theorists such as Gé...

The provision of care for survivors of sexual violence is a medico-legal emergency. However, due to social issues, healthcare providers face several ethical and legal dilemmas when administering care to such survivors at hospitals. Added to these are the compulsions under mandatory reporting laws, which oblige healthcare providers to abide by the ethical commitments of care and treatment, and m...

BACKGROUND Intimate partner violence remains a global problem and is of particular concern in Latina diasporas. AIM To identify effective elements of interventions to address intimate partner violence in Latina women. METHOD The systematic review was undertaken according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. We focused the search on inter...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the association between alcohol and violence among Argentine youth. METHODS Data from the 2007 Argentina Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS), a nationally representative survey of middle school students, were examined using age-adjusted logistic regression models. RESULTS Of the 1,328 participating students aged 13 to 15 years old, 51.9% report...

This article outlines the goals and targets of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to elimination of violence against women and girls (VAWG) and to explain the framework to target these goals. Prevention of VAWG has been identified as one of the key agents for sustainable development. SDGs gave enough importance and called for the elimination of "all forms of violence against all women...