Fighting Violence Against Women: Laws, Norms & Challenges Ahead

P-151: Violence Against Women and Children:Causes, Challenges and Prevention

Background: Violence against women is a problem of public health on a global scale. Two decades of international research organizations including the World Health Organization show the problem of violence against women is more serious and more common than was previously considered. These studies aimed to investigate, the most common causes of violence against women and prevention strategy from ...

Multiple struggles in fighting violence against women: implications among Romani women leaders in Spain

BACKGROUND Violence against women (VAW) is a central issue in gender studies and one that has united feminist activists from around the world. But this does not mean that this struggle is singular: indeed, one can say that there are many, diverse and sometimes even contradictory struggles occurring throughout the world. OBJECTIVES To identify and analyze the different struggles faced by women...

Social Themes of Domestic Violence Against Women

Introduction: Domestic violence against women is an ancient and common problem in any society. Knowing the leading social themes may help us to prevent and control domestic violence against women. The current study aims to investigate the role of access or lack of access to the resources in domestic violence against women. Methods: The thematic analysis applied as the research method. Thirty-on...

Violence against Women

Violence Against Women

This study is among the first attempts to address a frequently articulated, yet unsubstantiated claim that sample inclusion criteria based on women’s physical aggression or victimization will yield different distributions of severity and type of partner violence and injury. Independent samples of African American women participated in separate studies based on either inclusion criterion of wome...