Background: COVID-19 outbreak and the followed confinement measures have raised
concerns to specialists worldwide regarding the imminent increase in domestic violence …

We reviewed the existing literature documenting the association between water insecurity
and gender‐based violence to (1) describe the characteristics and contexts of available …

Although women can be violent in relationships with men, often in self-defence, and
violence sometimes occurs in same-sex partnerships, the most common perpetrators of …

This report summarises the findings of the 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey
(NDHS), implemented by the National Population Commission (NPC). ICF International …

Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women has been recognised as a public
health problem with far-reaching consequences for the physical, reproductive, and mental …

Over the past four decades, violence against women (VAW) has come to be seen as a
violation of human rights and an important concern for social policy. Yet government action …

Summary In 1996, the World Health Assembly declared violence a major public health
issue. To follow up on this resolution, on Oct 3 this year, WHO released the first World Report …

Intimate partner violence, which describes physical or sexual assault, or both, of a spouse or
sexual Intimate, is a common health-care issue. In this article, I have reviewed research on …

Violence pervades the lives of many people around the world, and touches all of us in some
way. To many people, staying out of harm's way is a matter of locking doors and windows …

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 …