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http://www.thelancet.com/series/violence-against-women-and-girls
Violence Against Women
& Girls – The Lancet
Published November 21,
2014
Executive Summary
Every day, millions of women and girls worldwide experience violence. This
abuse takes many forms, including intimate physical and sexual partner
violence, female genital mutilation, child and forced marriage, sex
trafficking, and rape. The Lancet Series on Violence against
women and girls shows that such abuse is preventable. Five papers cover the
evidence base for interventions, discuss the vital role of the health sector in
care and prevention, show the need for men and women to be involved in
effective programmes, provide practical lessons from experience in countries,
and present a call for action with five key recommendations and indicators to
track progress.
Comment
Prevention of violence
against women and girls: a new chapter
Udani Samarasekera, Richard
Horton
Patriarchy and violence
against women and girls
Jimmy Carter
Research priorities to
address violence against women and girls
Marleen Temmerman
Series
Prevention of violence
against women and girls: what does the evidence say?
Mary Ellsberg, Diana J
Arango, Matthew Morton, Floriza Gennari, Sveinung Kiplesund, Manuel Contreras,
Charlotte Watts
The health-systems
response to violence against women
Claudia García-Moreno, Kelsey
Hegarty, Ana Flavia Lucas d’Oliveira, Jane Koziol-MacLain, Manuela Colombini,
Gene Feder
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
Rachel Jewkes, Michael Flood,
James Lang
Prevention of violence
against women and girls: lessons from practice
Lori Michau, Jessica Horn,
Amy Bank, Mallika Dutt, Cathy Zimmerman
Addressing violence
against women: a call to action
Claudia García-Moreno, Cathy
Zimmerman, Alison Morris-Gehring, Lori Heise, Avni Amin, Naeemah Abrahams,
Oswaldo Montoya, Padma Bhate-Deosthali, Nduku Kilonzo, Charlotte Watts