Violence against women and girls : lessons from South Asia /
This report documents the dynamics of violence against women in South Asia across the life cycle, from early childhood to old age. It explores the different types of violence that women may face throughout their lives, as well as the associated perpetrators (male and female), risk and protective fac...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
World Bank Group,
2014.
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| Series: | South Asia development forum.
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| Online Access: | Full text (Emerson users only) Full text (Emmanuel users only) Full text (NECO users only) Full text (MCPHS users only) Access E-Book Full text (Wentworth users only) |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction and overview : Why this report and why now? ; Scope of the report ; Organizational framework: life-cycle and ecological approaches ; Estimating the costs and consequences of violence across levels of society ; Summary of data and methods
- 2. Patterns of violence against women and girls in South Asia : Excess female child mortality ; Child marriage ; Intimate partner violence within marriage ; Forms of violence that need more research to establish prevalence ; Disclosure and care-seeking across forms of violence faced by women and girls ; Understanding the violence that South Asian women and girls face
- 3. What underlies violence against women and girls in South Asia? : Socioeconomic and demographic changes ; Government, religious institutions, and legal systems ; Social norms and gender relations ; Risk factors for violence against girls and adolescents in the ecological framework ; Risk factors in marriage: dowry violence and intimate partner violence ; Risk and protective factors for violence that is not limited to a particular life stage or marital status
- 4. Learning from interventions to address violence against women and girls : Implications of recent economic, political, and social changes for violence ; Methods to identify and definitions of targeted interventions ; The landscape of evaluated interventions in South Asia: a summary ; Preventing excess female child mortality ; Preventing and responding to abuse faced by girls throughout childhood ; Preventing child marriage ; The importance of birth registration to address all forms of violence against girls ; Opportunities, gaps, and challenges in addressing all forms of violence against girl children ; Addressing domestic and intimate partner violence within marriage ; Addressing sexual harassment in public spaces ; Preventing and responding to honor killings ; Addressing custodial violence against women and girls ; Preventing and responding to trafficking of women and girls ; Looking across forms of violence: key lessons and challenges
- 5. Where do we go from here? : Recommendations for all actors ; Recommendations for governments ; Recommendations for donors ; Recommendations for nongovernmental organizations ; Recommendations for the research community ; Media ; Recommendations for the private sector
- Appendixes : A. Data sources available and used for descriptive analysis ; B. World Bank projects addressing gender-based violence, active in 2008 or later ; C. Evaluated interventions to address excess female child mortality ; D. Evaluated interventions to address abuse against girl children ; E. Evaluated interventions to prevent child marriage ; F. Evaluated interventions to address intimate partner violence ; G. Evaluated interventions to address sexual harassment ; H. Evaluated interventions to address honor killings ; I. Evaluated interventions to address custodial violence against women and girls ; J. Evaluated interventions to address trafficking of women and girls ; K. Evaluated interventions that engage men and boys in addressing violence against women and girls
- Online appendixes.