Perspectives The sustainable development goals (SDGs), which are defined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1 offer an opportunity to achieve the commitments on the prevention of violence against women made by governments in many previous declarations, resolutions and international agreements. One of the goals related to violence is SDG 5, which addresses gender equality and the em...

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...

Violence against woman has received relatively little debate in society. It includes physical, psychological, and sexual abuse that jeopardizes the victim’s health. Multivariate correspondence analysis and cluster analysis were applied to crimes reported to the Integrated Women’s Aid Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to investigate associations between injury and define criteria for classifying...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Violence against women is a widespread problem and has serious implications on women's health. Infertility, in many ways, is a very stressful condition that affect social and marital life of a couple; moreover, compared to fertile women, infertile women are twice as vulnerable against violence. Our objective was to determine the prevalence of violence and define the effec...

BACKGROUND Violence against women is a worldwide problem and serious human rights abuse that occurs among all social, cultural, economic and religious groups. There is a paucity of research on intimate partner violence against women in Iraq, particularly in the Kurdistan region. This study assessed the prevalence of emotional, physical and sexual intimate partner violence against women and the ...

Violence has dramatically increased in recent years. The statistics of social and cultural factors of the violence against women has turned into an acute social problem and this unnatural growth is a sign of different factors. If we want to reach a common and continuous solution there is a need for fundamental revisions through the political, social and cultural structures in order to pro...