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Social safety nets, women’s economic achievements and agency in 45 countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Nature Human Behaviour
Abstract There are increasing calls for economic assistance in the form of social safety nets (SSNs) to be designed and implemented to promote women’s economic inclusion and agency, contributing to closing gender disparities globally. Here we investigate the extent to which SSNs affect women’s economic achievements and agency through a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials implemented in low- and middle-income countries.
Netflix's Adolescence: Social Change Through Edutainment
The Netflix miniseries Adolescence has sparked a global dialogue on toxic masculinity, media, and violence. The series depicts the arrest of a 13-year-old Brit named Jamie, who is accused of murdering a teenage girl named Katie after being influenced by violent and misogynistic social media. The series has had record-breaking success, garnering more than 120 million views only a month after its release.
Standardizing Sex: A Century of Trans Medicine in Scandinavia | Think Global Health
Medical interventions for trans people to transition and modify sexual characteristics are often believed to be a recent phenomenon. But the history of these hormonal and surgical practices can be traced back a century. The new book, Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine, analyzes how trans medicine developed during the twentieth century beginning in 1920s Scandinavia.
Standardizing Sex: A Century of Trans Medicine in Scandinavia | Think Global Health
Medical interventions for trans people to transition and modify sexual characteristics are often believed to be a recent phenomenon. But the history of these hormonal and surgical practices can be traced back a century. The new book, Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine, analyzes how trans medicine developed during the twentieth century beginning in 1920s Scandinavia.
Disclosure of violence against women and girls in Senegal
Article Dans Une Revue World Bank Economic Review Année : 2024 Disclosure of violence against women and girls in Senegal Mots clés violence against women and girls intimate partner violence measurement Senegal Fichier principal 2024_World Bank Economic Review_Disclosure of violence.pdf (504.03 Ko) Télécharger le fichier Origine Publication financée par une institution Licence hal-04762236 , version 1 (31-10-2024) HAL Id : hal-04762236 , version 1 DOI : 10.1093/wber/lhae039 WOS :...
Is intimate partner violence declining? It's still an open question
Sustainable Development Goal 5.2 urges countries to “eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls”. Indicator 5.2.1—the proportion of partnered women and girls subjected to intimate partner violence (IPV) in the previous 12 months—is recommended to monitor this goal. In their Article, 1 Ma N Chen S Kong Y et al.
Collaborative researchers join the 68th Commission on the Status of Women in New York
Members of the collaborative join the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (#CSW68) in New York to present research and appear on discussion panels in partnership with social protection stakeholders.
India's Invisible Chains
One morning at the hospital in Vellore, India, where I work, I pulled aside a young woman to inquire about something worrisome the nurses had told me. The woman was staying with her ailing mother, a sixty-year-old inpatient. The nurses said the young woman had been rude to the patient, her mother, and had shoved her on at least one occasion. When I asked about her this, she broke down in tears.
GBV Series Ep. 1 | How Can Social Protection Impact Gender-based Violence?
Kicking off the three-part series ‘’Social Protection for Prevention of and Response to Gender-based Violence’’, this episode presents a deep dive into what we know about the impacts of social protection on gender-based violence (GBV) and some of the remaining knowledge gaps. We look at economic empowerment programmes and how they can help reduce economic stress and challenge gender norms that often drive violence in community settings.
Beyond targeting: Making social protection work for women in Ghana
(LEAP 1000 participant, Barrington et al. 2021) The Government of Ghana launched the LEAP 1000 pilot – a ‘cash plus’ programme – targeted at pregnant women and those with infants living in poor households in 2015. The motivation of the pilot was to support children during the first 1000 days, a key period of physical and mental development, with the overall goal of reducing child malnutrition and improving child health outcomes.
A diagonal and social protection plus approach to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 syndemic: cash transfers and intimate partner violence interventions in Latin America
Summary Latin America has been particularly hard hit by the COVID-19 syndemic, including the associated economic fallout that has threatened the livelihoods of most families. Social protection platforms and policies should have a crucial role in safeguarding individual and family wellbeing; however, the response has been insufficient to address the scale of the crisis.
Do Cash Grants Increase Pregnancies? Evidence from Asia and the Pacific says “No”
A common fear among policymakers is that government-provided benefits for households with young children – including cash transfers – may increase incentives to have children, to gain or maintain program eligibility. This is a topic we’ve had our eyes on for some time through the Transfer Project. By conducting reviews of evidence and in our own impact evaluations, we’ve found little evidence to support this narrative from cash transfer programming in low-and middle income countries (LMICs).
5 ways governments can respond to gender based violence during COVID-19 and beyond
Violence against women and girls has soared since the start of the pandemic. Many reports have now documented an increase in calls to helplines, online support services, and police reports. From increasing victim services, to providing more legal support, UNICEF suggests five ways governments can respond.
Five things we learned from research on child survivors of violence
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 perpetrators – including parents, peers and intimate or dating partners. Despite these high figures, official figures of VAC are just the tip of the iceberg.
Violence in Times of Coronavirus—The Ugly Truth | Think Global Health
In Almassora, near Valencia, Spain, a woman named Carina was stabbed to death by her husband in front of their two children on March 19—less than a week into the country's lockdown. In Wilson Borough, Pennsylvania, on March 30, thirty-eight-year-old Roderick Bliss IV, who was distraught over losing his job during the coronavirus pandemic, shot his forty-three-year-old girlfriend and himself.
Disclosure, reporting and help seeking among child survivors of violence: a cross-country analysis
Research article Open Access Published: 02 July 2020 Audrey Pereira1, Amber Peterman ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-3921-59362,3, Anastasia Naomi Neijhoft4, Robert Buluma5, Rocio Aznar Daban6, Aminul Islam7, Esmie Tamanda Vilili Kainja8, Inah Fatoumata Kaloga9, They Kheam10, Afrooz Kaviani Johnson11, M.
Five ways governments are responding to violence against women and children during COVID-19
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 and similar adverse and severe consequences.
Can conditional cash transfers improve maternal health care? Evidence from El Salvador's Comunidades Solidarias Rurales program
Summary There is growing evidence on positive human capital impacts of large, poverty‐focused cash transfer programs. However, evidence is inconclusive on whether cash transfer programs affect maternal health outcomes, and if so, through which pathways.
Who perpetrates violence against children? Five findings from a global review
Today, global leaders gather in Stockholm, Sweden for the first ever Agenda 2030 Solutions Summit to end violence against children. The summit brings together governments, UN, civil society, academics and children themselves to share solutions to “prevent and respond to violence against boys and girls.” Underlying this meeting is a growing awareness and recognition that violence is pervasive and that levels represent gross human rights violations.
Gender inequalities in ownership and control of land in Africa: myth and reality
Supporting Information Filename Description agec12171-sup-0001-tableS1.docx22.7 KB Supplementary Material References , , , 2011. Environmental and gender impacts of land tenure regularization in Africa: Pilot evidence from Rwanda. World Bank Policy Research working paper no. WPS 5765. World Bank, Washington, DC, USA. , 2007. Do women's land rights promote empowerment and child health in Nepal? World Dev. 35(11), 1975–1988. , , , , , , , , 2012.
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