ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON THE CONTEXTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN GONDAR TOWN‚ NORTHWEST ETHIOPIA BY TEGBAR YIGZAW (MD) A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES OF ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH JULY 2005 ADDIS ABABA‚ ETHIOPIA DEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to thank my advisors Dr Negussie Deyessa and Ato Mirgissa
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victims of sexual assault and normalized male sexual violence. It can also be defined as a complex set of beliefs that encourage male sexual aggression and supports violence against women. Rape culture includes the images‚ language‚ laws and other everyday phenomena that we see and hear everyday that validate and perpetuate rape. Rape culture is the jokes‚ TV‚ music‚ advertising‚ legal jargon‚ laws‚ words and imagery‚ that make violence against women and sexual coercion seem normal. Research has shown
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“over 450 girls and women have been murdered in or near the cities of Juarez and Chihuahua‚ Mexico‚ along the U.S. –Mexico border since 1993. Some were students; many were workers in the maquiladoras” (Martinez 1). For the past 18 years in Ciudad Juarez‚ women and girls have been targeted based on their gender and acts of violence have been committed towards them with no clear motive other than gender discrimination. Gender crimes are incidents of violence targeting women exclusively‚ not because
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE By October 18‚ 2014 Introduction According to‚ Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) children exposed to domestic violence experience trauma as a result. Their statistical data from 2003 to 2012‚ which consists of computerized records of domestic violence‚ show that trauma is a byproduct when children witness domestic violence. Interventions and outcomes are examined to account for existing models for children who witness domestic violence. It is estimated
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born out of the campaign‚ Violence Against Women‚ launched in March 1985 in conjunction with International Women’s Day. For the first time in Malaysia‚ issues of rape‚ domestic violence‚ sexual harassment‚ prostitution and the portrayal of women in the media were highlighted to the public. The event inspired the formation of several women’s groups in the country‚ one of which was AWAM‚ which was officially registered in 1988. AWAM is a non-governmental‚ non-profit‚ women organization and committed
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Women’s Syndrome and Abuse Introduction Domestic violence has existed for centuries and is still prevalent in present day society (Flowers‚ 1996: 131). Domestic violence generally involves violence towards women and children (Sev’er‚ 2007: 235).This generally includes physical‚ sexual‚ verbal‚ and emotional violence directed towards a spouse‚ girlfriend‚ wife‚ or partner (DeKeseredy‚ 2005: 234). One of the debates surrounding domestic violence is the legitimacy of battered women’s syndrome. There
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Domestic Violence Agency explaining the program planning and the evaluation‚ describing how the two components are interrelation and identifying the technical and political aspects of both programs. The PEACE’s mission is to reduce victim trauma‚ empower survivors‚ and promote recovery through direct services. PEACE is committed to reducing the incidence of sexual assault and domestic violence through education and strives to challenge societal norms and beliefs that condone and perpetuate violence in
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bring awareness in the society about the plight of women. This paper is an attempt to explain the need of movements like this in India in the light of human rights and how they are denied to women. Introduction Take Back the Night is one of many women’s empowerment centric movements which is highly necessary as it draws attention to the plight of women around the world and highlight the need for justice for those who have endured sexual violence. Human rights are those minimum rights which are compulsorily
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isolated as a border town. In addition‚ with plenty of family dispute‚ suicide and tragedy happened in the town‚ it is glamorized by the mass media as a city of sadness. Despite the fact that the government has low awareness of the issue of domestic violence‚
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society and unfortunately is the underlying problem to most violence in the world‚ particularly violence towards women. Patriarchy exemplifies the misogyny that has been ever-present since probably the beginning of every society. Whether it is discrimination towards women‚ lack of equal rights‚ or violence towards women‚ violence that stems almost entirely from patriarchal dominance is seen throughout most human societies past and present. Violence and fear have been used in many instances as forms of
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