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Causes and Effects of Gender-Based Violence

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Angela Pirlott

The United Nations has identified gender-based violence against women as a global health and development issue, and a host of policies, public education, and action programs aimed at reducing gender-based violence have been undertaken around the world. This article highlights new conceptualizations, methodological issues, and selected research findings that can inform such activities. In addition to describing recent research findings that document relationships between gender, power, sexuality, and intimate violence cross-nationally, it identifies cultural factors, including linkages between sex and violence through media images that may increase women’s risk for violence, and profiles a host of negative physical, mental, and behavioral health outcomes associated with victimization including unwanted pregnancy and abortion. More research is needed to identify the causes, dynamics, and outcomes of gender-based violence, including media effects, and to articulate how different forms of such violence vary in outcomes depending on cultural context.

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Saumya Singh

Violence against women is the most pervasive yet least recognised Human Rights violations in the world. It is a profound health problem, sapping women's energy, compromising with their physical health and eroding their self-esteem. In the light of the above statement, this research article seeks to draw a comparative perspective of gender based violence in India and Pakistan. Violence against women is defined as any act of "gender-based violence that results in or is likely to result in physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of acts such as coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life." Paragraph 112 of Beijing Declaration and Programme of Action sums up the nature and effects of gender based violence-" Violence against women both violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment by women of their human rights and fundamental freedoms... In all societies, to a greater or lesser degree, women and girls are subjected to physical, sexual and psychological abuse that cuts across lines of income, class and culture."1 According to the Human Rights Watch, gender-based violence occurs as a cause and consequence of gender inequities. It includes a range of violent acts mainly committed by men against women, within the context of the subordinate status of females in society, which it seeks to preserve. In all societies, to varying degrees, women and girls are subjected to physical, sexual and psychological abuse that cuts across lines of income, class and culture. Such violence is recognised as a violation of human rights and a form of discrimination against women, reflecting the pervasive imbalance of power between women and men. The experience of violence can affect women in a myriad of ways that are often difficult to quantify. Injuries and health problems are common as a result of physical and sexual violence, but the psychological and emotional wounds they may also inflict are sometimes deeper and longer lasting. Violence can lead to a reduced ability of a woman to work, care for her family and contribute to society. Witnessing violence in childhood can also result in a range of behavioural and emotional problems. Women who have suffered from intimate partner violence are more likely to give birth to a low-birth weight baby, have an abortion and experience depression. In some regions, they are also more likely to contract HIV. In some cases, violence against 1United Nations. (2015). Gender Statistics-Violence against Women. Retrieved from https://unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/vaw/.

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Seshananda Sanjel

This article attempts to summarize the situations of gender-based violence, a major public health issue. Due to the unequal power relations between men and women, women are violated either in family, in the community or in the State. Gender-based violence takes different forms like physical, sexual or psychological/ emotional violence. The causes of gender-based violence are multidimensional including social, economic, cultural, political and religious. The literatures written in relation to the gender-based violence are accessed using electronic databases as PubMed, Medline and Google scholar, Google and other Internet Websites between 1994 and first quarter of 2013 using an internet search from the keywords such as gender-based violence, women violence, domestic violence, wife abuse, violence during pregnancy, women sexual abuse, political gender based violence, cultural gender-based violence, economical gender-based violence, child sexual abuse and special forms of gender-based v...

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Claudia Garcia

Cecilia L . Calub

Violation of women’s human’s rights would be the main focus of the discussion. This is not to say that gender-based violence against men does not exist. For instance, men can become targets of physical or verbal attacks for transgressing predominant concepts of masculinity, for example because they have sex with men. Men can also become victims of violence in the family – by partners or children. (Bloom 2008, p14) Women and girls victims of violence suffer specific consequences as a result of gender discrimination. As summed up by UNFPA Gender Theme Group, 1998: Gender-based violence is violence involving men and women, in which the woman is usually the victim; and which is derived from gender norms and roles as well as from unequal power relations between women and men. Violence is specifically targeted against a person because of his or her gender, and it affects women disproportionately. It includes, but is not limited to, physical, sexual, and psychological harm (including intimidation, suffering, coercion, and/or deprivation of liberty within the family or within the general community). It includes violence perpetuated by the state.

Fatima Islahi

Violence against women, according to the UNICEF, continues to be a global epidemic that kills, torments, and injures physically, psychologically, sexually, and economically which in turn devastates human existence, fractures communities, and stalls development; it is one of the most persistent violation of human rights that denies women security, dignity, equality, and their right to enjoy fundamental freedoms. This violence, a clear example of gender-based discrimination, is a major source of women's decreased health and wellbeing. In its numerous forms, violence against women has been recognized as a highly prevalent social and public health problem with serious consequences for the health of women and their children. The present paper provides an overview of the most common forms of violence against women and its prevalence. Furthermore, the paper also examines and provides a detailed overview of research findings about the direct and indirect consequences of violence on health and wellbeing of women that may include physical and chronic health problems, mental health problems, and sexual health problems. Taking into consideration the reasons behind the violence and its consequences the paper emphasizes the necessity for initiatives to be taken with coordinated efforts across different sectors to support and protect victims, to ensure that women are able to assert and exercise their rights and that society has instruments at its disposal to punish aggressors.

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B Suresh Lal, PhD

This paper focuses on what is violence against women, the many types of violence, and the reasons for violence against women and girls. Violence against women and girls has serious physical, economic, and psychological consequences in the short and long-run. Violence against women may cost the state, victims/survivors, and communities much money. Costs might be direct or indirect, tangible or immaterial. Partners or ex-partners commit the majority of femicide cases. One in every 10 European Union women has experienced cyber-harassment since 15 years of age. Alcohol has emerged as a consistent risk factor for partner violence in various settings. Violence against women has been associated with unmarried, separated or divorced, or in a live-in relationship. All levels of law enforcement must be efficient and responsible. Increasing public knowledge is another possible solution-safe consultations with survivors of violence against women and girls.

Esther Namisi

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Gender-Based Violence: Risk Factors and Consequences
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Addressing Gender-Based Violence: A Critical Review of Interventions

Andrew Morrison (corresponding author) is a lead economist in the Gender and Development Group at the World Bank; his email address is [email protected] .

Mary Ellsberg is senior advisor for Gender, Violence, and Human Rights at PATH; her email address is [email protected] .

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This article highlights the progress in building a knowledge base on effective ways to increase access to justice for women who have experienced gender-based violence, offer quality services to survivors, and reduce levels of gender-based violence. While recognizing the limited number of high-quality studies on program effectiveness, this review of the literature highlights emerging good practices. Much progress has recently been made in measuring gender-based violence, most notably through a World Health Organization multicountry study and Demographic and Health Surveys. Even so, country coverage is still limited, and much of the information from other data sources cannot be meaningfully compared because of differences in how intimate partner violence is measured and reported. The dearth of high-quality evaluations means that policy recommendations in the short run must be based on emerging evidence in developing economies (process evaluations, qualitative evaluations, and imperfectly designed impact evaluations) and on more rigorous impact evaluations from developed countries.

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Gender-based violence (GBV) refers to violence directed towards an individual or group on the basis of their gender. Gender-based violence was traditionally conceptualized as violence by men against women but is now increasingly taken to include a wider range of hostilities based on sexual identity and sexual orientation, including certain forms of violence against men who do not embody the dominant forms of masculinity.

While most earlier sources take gender-based violence as synonymous with violence against women (United Nations General Assembly, 1993 ), O’Toole and Schiffman ( 1997 ) offer a broad definition to include “any interpersonal, organisational or politically orientated violation perpetrated against people due to their gender identity, sexual orientation, or location in the hierarchy of male-dominated social systems such as family, military, organisations, or the labour force” (p. xii). This definition is useful in that it potentially includes not only...

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