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Can social protection simultaneously reduce violence against children and violence against women?

Can social protection simultaneously reduce violence against children and violence against women?

Impact evaluation Social Protection Violence Against Children

By Amber Peterman, Alessandra Guedes

Despite the identification of cash transfers as a promising evidence-informed strategy to address violence against children (VAC) and violence against women (VAW) – until recently, there was little evidence from low- and middle-income country settings (LMICs), that assessed the effects of such interventions on both in the same study.… Read more →←
How a focus on parenting can reduce violence both for children and women

How a focus on parenting can reduce violence both for children and women

Violence Against Children

By Janina Jochim, Lauren Rumble, Stephen Blight

Violence against children and violence against women often occur under the same roof and share many risk factors. The economic insecurities and uncertainty brought on by COVID-19 raise the risk of violence within the family – already extraordinarily high even before the pandemic. Women and children were likely to experience… Read more →←
Can we change the way we think about violence against children, adolescents, and women?

Can we change the way we think about violence against children, adolescents, and women?

Adolescents Gender Violence Against Children

By Floriza Gennari and Alessandra Guedes

Selina was 8 the first time her father hit her. And while he tearfully apologized afterwards, a few weeks later he did it again. Her mother often suffered the same fate, she knew, behind closed doors. It became a pattern in Selina’s life whenever he was drinking – and angry. When Selina was a teenager, her first boyfriend was much… Read more →←
Five things we learned from research on child survivors of violence

Five things we learned from research on child survivors of violence

Violence Against Children

By Amber Peterman, Audrey Pereira and Tia Palermo

Understanding prevalence, characteristics and motives of disclosure, help-seeking and reporting of violence against children   Violence against children is a pervasive global phenomenon. Estimates indicate over 1 billion children under the age of 18 experience emotional, physical or sexual violence every year from a range of… Read more →←
Sexual Exploitation of Boys in Times of Crisis:  What can we learn from existing research, and what is still unknown?

Sexual Exploitation of Boys in Times of Crisis: What can we learn from existing research, and what is still unknown?

COVID-19 Data and Research Violence Against Children

By Claudia Cappa, Nicole Petrowski, Laura Cordisco Tsai and Rocio Aznar Daban

Tobias, 13, stands by an open window at a shelter for sexually abused children in one of Colombia’s largest cities. He is one of six children from a very poor family. At the age of 9, Tobias was dressed ‘like a girl’ and sold to a man for sex by a male friend of his mother. After running away, he began to sell sex in order to… Read more →←
Cinco estratégias que os governos estão utilizando para responder à violência contra mulheres e crianças durante a COVID-19

Cinco estratégias que os governos estão utilizando para responder à violência contra mulheres e crianças durante a COVID-19

COVID-19 Evidence Evidence to Policy Violence Against Children

By UNICEF Innocenti, Alessandra Guedes, Amber Peterman, Dina Deligiorgis

Embora o mundo tenha sido pego de surpresa pelo tamanho e pelas ramificações da crise da COVID-19, ele deveria estar preparado para responder aos riscos crescentes ao bem-estar e à segurança de mulheres e crianças. A violência contra as mulheres e a violência contra as crianças são disseminadas globalmente e intrinsicamente… Read more →←
Five ways governments are responding to violence against women and children during COVID-19

Five ways governments are responding to violence against women and children during COVID-19

Evidence to Policy Violence Against Children

By Alessandra Guedes, Amber Peterman, Dina Deligiorgis

While the world may have been caught off guard by the size and ramifications of the COVID-19 crisis, it should be prepared to respond to the increased risks to the wellbeing and safety of children and women. Violence against children and violence against women are widespread globally and intrinsically linked, sharing common risk factors… Read more →←
The Time Is Now! Preventing Violence Against Women and Children Requires Quality Evidence

The Time Is Now! Preventing Violence Against Women and Children Requires Quality Evidence

Data and Research Events Violence Against Children

By Alessandra Guedes, Lusajo Kajula, Amber Peterman

Reflections from the world’s premier conference on ending violence against women and violence against children from the Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum 2019     Nearly 800 researchers, policy-makers, practitioners and activists descended on Cape Town, South Africa for the world’s key conference on ending violence… Read more →←

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