A global overview of gender-based violence.

Conducting population-based research on gender-based violence in conflict-affected settings: An overview of a multi-country research project

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 ...

Understanding gender-based violence perpetration to create a safer future for women and girls.

Worldwide, one in three women experience genderbased violence, which imparts physical, mental, and sexual health morbidities. It also causes mortality—more than a third of homicides of women are attributable to male partners. These data justifi ably create global outrage, accentuated by horrifi c recent high-profi le cases, including the brutal gang rape of a student in New Delhi, and the attem...

Primary Prevention Is? A Global Perspective on How Organizations Engaging Men in Preventing Gender-Based Violence Conceptualize and Operationalize Their Work.

Engaging men in addressing violence against women (VAW) has become a strategy in the global prevention of gender-based violence. Concurrently, Western public health frameworks have been utilized to guide prevention agendas worldwide. Using qualitative methods, this study describes how global anti-violence organizations that partner with men conceptualize primary prevention in their work. Findin...

Mainstreaming Gender in the Health Sector: Prevention of Gender-based Violence and Male Involvement in Reproductive Health

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...