Tag: intimate partner violence

La violence entre partenaires intimes (VPI) est courante au Burkina Faso, où près d’une femme sur dix ont subi des VPI physiques ou sexuelles l’année dernière. De nombreuses femmes qui subissent des violences au sein de leurs ménages subissent aussi des VPI ; 58% des femmes mariées ou en union qui ont fait l’objet de […]

Source:- Publications | UN Women – Africa This study has been conducted to develop the evidence base on the economic impacts of violence against women more broadly through estimating these impacts with a focus on IPV. It employed a mixed methods approach to estimate the broader economic costs of IPV for women/households and the economy […]

Abstract Limited emphasis is placed on understanding the gendered pathways that influence mental health, especially long-term cumulative impacts of gender-based inequalities. Exposure to early child marriage (marriage by age 15) may exaggerate exposure to gender-based mental health risk-factors, providing an opportunity to understand the multi-layered gendered pathways that impact mental health overtime. We used nationally […]

A recent article of Swiatlo et al. (2020) shows that sexual minority groups are disproportionately affected by intimate partner violence, indicating a need for increased prevention efforts and for studies exploring the mechanisms underlying these differences. Read the full article in the Journal Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. Abstract CONTEXT: Intimate partner violence (IPV) among sexual minority young […]

Abstract Introduction Harmful gender norms, views on the acceptability of violence against women, and power inequities in relationships have been explored as key drivers of male perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV). Yet such antecedents have been inconsistently measured in the empirical literature. This systematic review aimed to identify which measures of gender inequitable norms, […]

In its first report on implementation by the Netherlands of the Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (widely known as the “Istanbul Convention”), the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts (GREVIO) stresses the country’s long history of addressing domestic violence and other forms of violence against women through policy and legislation, with […]

Multi-sectoral, integrated interventions have long been recommended for addressing mental health and its social determinants (e.g., gender-based violence) in settings of ongoing adversity. We developed an integrated health and protection intervention to reduce psychological distress and intimate partner violence (IPV), and tested its delivery by lay facilitators in a low-resource refugee setting. Methods Formative research […]