Natural hazards, disasters and violence against women and girls: a global mixed-methods systematic review

Covid-19 as a Facilitator for increasing domestic violence against women: A systematic review study

due to restrictive conditions (Quarantine) have exposed family relations to some critical issues and have increased domestic violence against women. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the reasons for the increasing domestic violence related to coronavirus (COVID 19) by systematic review study. Methods: At the first stage, we gathered original articles from 2019 to 2020 i...

WOMEN, GIRLS AND DISASTERS A review for DFID

Bridging the gaps: a global review of intersections of violence against women and violence against children

BACKGROUND The international community recognises violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC) as global human rights and public health problems. Historically, research, programmes, and policies on these forms of violence followed parallel but distinct trajectories. Some have called for efforts to bridge these gaps, based in part on evidence that individuals and families oft...

Elimination of violence against women and girls as a global action agenda

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...

Peace without Security Violence against Women and Girls in Liberia

Liberia's civil wars are often mis­ taken ly perceived as marking the beginning of widespread violence against women and girls (VAWG) in the country. This may derive from a commonly held view that sexual vio­ lence 1 —more than any other single factor—epitomizes the atrocities committed throughout the 14 years of civil conflict, during which rape was widely used as a 'weapon of war' (Omanyondo,...