Finding What Works to Reduce Violence Against 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...

What works to prevent violence against women and girls? State of the field of violence against women and girls: What do we know and what are the knowledge gaps?

What Works to Prevent Partner Violence ?

report represents solely the view point of the author, and does not necessarily represent the views or policy of DFID. 1.1 Why focus on partner violence, versus other forms of violence against women and girls? 1.2 Why focus on prevention versus response? 1.3 What " causes " partner violence? 1.4 Organization of the study 1.5 Methodology 1.5.1 Collection of evidence 1.5.2 Review and evaluation c...

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 ...

Functional Analysis of the Socio-cultural Factors of Violence against Women

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...

What works to prevent violence against women with disabilities

We present key findings on the evidence from research studies on violence against women with disabilities and evidence from interventions to prevent violence. Responses to prevent and address gender based violence against women in this high risk group need to take into account the intersection of gender and disability and how this increases the vulnerability of women with disabilities to violen...