Violence Against Women
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Is the US Still Too Patriarchal to Talk About Women? The Silent Epidemic of Femicide in America
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Femicide is the most extreme form of gender-based violence. Of all femicide cases in the high-income world, 70% are committed in the United States, and yet a Pew Research Center survey found that more than half of American men think sexism is over. The evidence runs counter to this, in…
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Changing Mindsets in Pakistan: Mr. Salman Sufi on the Punjab Protection of Women Against Violence Act
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Salman Sufi is Director General at the Chief Minister’s Strategic Reforms Unit within the Punjab government, which works as a think tank for the Punjab Chief Minister. Since 2014, Mr. Sufi has introduced, designed and implemented more than 30 groundbreaking reforms across the Punjab province. He has been instrumental in…
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The Role of Economic Independence in Domestic Violence: Evidence from Africa
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Violence against women has long been and continues to be a widespread social problem across the globe. Statistics from UN Women—an United Nations entity dedicated to the empowerment of women—show that 35 percent of women worldwide have experienced either sexual violence by a non-partner or physical and/or sexual intimate partner…