Violence against women and girls : lessons from South Asia /
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| Author / Creator: | Solotaroff, Jennifer L. |
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : World Bank, [2014] |
| Description: | xxxvi, 295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | South Asia development forum South Asia development forum. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10372512 |
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.
