OBJECTIVES: Investigators systematically reviewed population-based surveys on the
prevalence of past-year violence against children and synthesized the best available …

Background The international community recognises violence against women (VAW) and
violence against children (VAC) as global human rights and public health problems …

Violence shatters lives. Around the world almost half a million people are murdered each
year. Beyond these deaths, millions more children, women and men suffer from the …

Imagine you woke up this morning to news headlines revealing that scientists had
discovered a new disease, and that up to 1 billion children worldwide were exposed to this …

OBJECTIVE To systematically assess the evidence for an association between sexual
abuse and a lifetime diagnosis of psychiatric disorders. PATIENTS AND METHODS We …

BACKGROUND: This study examines the prevalence, correlates, and psychiatric disorders
of adults with history of child sexual abuse (CSA). METHODS: Data were derived from a …

Background We aimed to complete a nationally representative study of sexual violence
against children in South Africa, and its correlates, since we could identify no other such …

Executive summary Intimate partner and sexual violence affect a large proportion of the
population–with the majority of those directly experiencing such violence being women and …

There is now conclusive evidence of the major and long-lasting negative effects of physical
and sexual abuse on children. Within Africa, studies consistently report high rates of child …

More than one billion children–half of all children in the world–are exposed to violence
every year. The violence children are exposed to includes both direct experiences of …