Prevention of violence against women and girls: lessons from practice.

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 ...

INTERACTIVE EXPERT PANEL Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls EMERGING PRACTICES IN PROVIDING SUPPORT SERVICES AND PRIMARY PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS

Empowering adolescent girls: developing egalitarian gender norms and relations to end violence

On the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child (October 11), this commentary highlights the problem of violence against adolescent girls. It describes the nature and magnitude of violence faced by adolescent girls, what we know about factors that drive violence against women and against adolescent girls. It highlights the importance of promoting egalitarian gender norms, particularl...

From work with men and boys to changes of social norms and reduction of inequities in gender relations: a conceptual shift in prevention of violence against women and girls.

Violence perpetrated by and against men and boys is a major public health problem. Although individual men's use of violence differs, engagement of all men and boys in action to prevent violence against women and girls is essential. We discuss why this engagement approach is theoretically important and how prevention interventions have developed from treating men simply as perpetrators of viole...

INTERACTIVE EXPERT PANEL Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICES TO WOMEN AND GIRLS VICTIMS/SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE