Rupa Khetarpal, Associate Professor of Teaching at Rutgers School of Social Work and an expert in global gender-based violence, is available to comment on the release of a video that has gone viral in India showing the sexual assault of…
Tag: Violence Against Women
New Appointment in Penn Nursing’s Center for Global Women’s Health
– Monique Howard, EdD, MPH, has been appointed the inaugural Senior Director of Women’s Health Initiatives. This new position will work to heighten visibility and strengthen both research and programming that originates out of the Center for Global Women’s Health (CGWH).
Gender-Based Violence: Rutgers Experts Available
Experts at the Rutgers Center on Violence Against Women and Children, the School of Social Work, are available to discuss gender-based violence, violence prevention and the newly reauthorized Violence Against Women Act. Victoria Banyard, professor and associate director of the…
Rutgers Political Scientist Available to Discuss Conspiracy to Kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
Mona Lena Krook, a Rutgers–New Brunswick professor of political science, is available to discuss the conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in an alleged domestic terrorist plot as it relates to violence against women in politics. “The alleged plot…
Violence against Women in Politics a Growing Problem
While women have made significant inroads into politics in recent years, their involvement has spurred attacks, intimidation and harassment in many parts of the world, says Mona Lena Krook, a professor of political science at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and author of the new book Violence against Women in Politics.
Psychological abuse: obstetric care must delve deeper
As domestic violence skyrockets amid COVID-19, women’s health experts are calling for compulsory training of obstetric health practitioners to ensure they can recognise the signs of coercive control for women in their care.
Mothering in domestic violence: protecting children behind closed doors
As emerging data shows an alarming rise of domestic violence during the pandemic, researchers at the University of South Australia are urging practitioners to look beyond clinical observations and focus on the strengths that mothers exercise to protect their children from domestic abuse.
Domestic Abuse and COVID-19
As COVID-19 spread across the globe, ravaging a path of illness and death, public health and government officials championed shelter-in-place orders to provide a safe haven away from the virus. But months later, preliminary data shows that the lockdown orders had the opposite effect on one particular demographic: Victims of intimate partner violence who were trapped at home with their abusers.
With Sharp Decrease of Intimate Partner Violence in Nicaragua, New Study Shows Violence Against Women and Girls Is Preventable
The percentage of women and girls in Nicaragua’s second-largest city who reported experiencing physical violence by their partners during their lifetimes decreased from 55% in 1995 to 28% in 2016, according to a GW new study.