Lessons from domestic violence research and advocacy in India can contribute to transnational feminist perspectives. Violence against women is interconnected and intermeshed with power imbalances of many kinds, emanating from the local social-cultural contexts as well as global factors such as development/underdevelopment, war and ethnic strife, poverty and related structural conditions. All th...

BACKGROUND Violence against women is an increasing global phenomenon. Little is known about violence against foreign-born women, despite a possible increased concentration of risk factors in this group. METHODS This study investigated prevalence of perceived threat of violence and exposure to physical violence and its relation to country of birth among women (18-64 years) residing in southern...

Workplace Violence in HealtH care: a continuous Global problem and its cHaracteristics in cHina Workplace violence is a persistent problem in health care worldwide. The victims are usually nurses and workers in the emergency department.[1‐8] The academic debate, as it develops overtime, would allow us to gain an integral insight about this problem. The author searched the related research and d...

CONTEXT Although there is increasing recognition of the global scope of domestic violence and the potential reproductive health consequences of violence, little is known about the relationship between physical and sexual domestic violence and gynecologic morbidity in developing country settings. METHODS A sample of 3,642 couples from northern India was created by matching husbands and wives w...

Domestic violence and other forms of violence against women and coercion are well known to be substantial and widespread, with women more likely than men to be abused by partners and other family members. Domestic violence is a major precipitating factor for suicide, and ethnic minority, immigrant and refugee women are at higher risk for suicidal behaviour. This article reviews literature about...

Zimbabwe faces an acute generalized HIV/AIDS epidemic combined with rapidly deteriorating economic and political conditions, under which levels of domestic violence are on the rise. We aimed to determine possible demographic and behavioral factors associated with physical domestic violence in a rural setting in order to better inform both national and local domestic violence and HIV prevention ...

As global sea levels and natural resource demands rise, people around the world are increasingly protesting environmental threats to their lives and livelihoods. What are the conditions under which these peaceful environmental protests are violently repressed? This paper uses the random forest algorithm to conduct an event analysis of grassroots environmental protests around the world. Utilizin...

Over the past decade, the prevention of gender-based violence1 and male involvement in reproductive health have come to be viewed as key to advancing the fight against poverty. Research and experience have demonstrated that both issues are crucial to the objectives of gender equality, the reduction of maternal mortality and mitigating the spread of HIV/AIDS, among other important development in...