METHODS: We combined cross-sectional data from the Demographic and Health Surveys
for 15 202 households representing mothers and fathers of children aged 36 to 59 months in …

This paper examines the perspectives of black African adolescent girls about
heteropatriarchal sexual violence in their resource-poor townships in South Africa. The study …

Abstract Background We evaluated Girl Empower–an intervention that aimed to equip
adolescent girls with the skills to make healthy, strategic life choices and to stay safe from …

The time has come to end violence in childhood. The best and only way we can build
peaceful societies is by preventing victimization of children and perpetration of violence by …

Background While the situation of married adolescent girls in Tanzania is increasingly
documented, empirical evidence concerning the ways in which child marriage impacts girls' …

Introduction: intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global concern not only among adults but
also adolescents. It has been reported that 35% of adolescent women have ever …

Very few studies examine sexual violence perpetrated on adolescents in Ghana or in sub-
Saharan Africa more generally. Using data collected in 2015 as part of a multi-country …

Decades of collective and cumulative work by practitioners, activists and researchers have
made violence prevention an important part of international development agendas …

Background Locally representative research and data on violence against children are
important to understand the nature and scale of the issue and to inform effective prevention …

Adolescent girls are more likely to experience early sexual debut than boys. However, the
developmental context of their sexual behaviors is under-investigated. Using the socio …