Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

Violence

Violence against women, gender-based violence

Canada

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Physical Abuse During Pregnancy [2004]

• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
  • Woman Abuse: Screening, Identification and Initial Response [2005]

Europe

• European Youth Centre Budapest
  • Gender Matters

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Advocacy interventions to reduce or eliminate violence and promote the physical and psychosocial well-being of women who experience intimate partner abuse

• International Women's Health Coalition
  • Gender-Based Violence

• Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
  • Strengthening Understanding of Femicide: Using Research to Galvanize Action and Accountability [2009]
  • Strengthening Regional Work on Gender-Based Violence: A Meeting of Activists, Practitioners, and Researchers from the Horn, East and Southern Africa, Kampala, Uganda, November 8-9, 2006 [2008]
  • Researching Violence Against Women: A Practical Guide for Researchers and Activists [2005]
  • Violence Against Women: The Health Sector Responds [2003]

• Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium
  • Gender-Based Violence

• United Nations Population Fund
  • UNFPA Strategy and Framework for Action to Addressing Gender-based Violence 2008-2011 [2009]
  • Ending Widespread Violence Against Women: Promoting Gender Equality

South Africa

• South African Medical Research Council
  • Every six hours a woman is killed by her intimate partner [2004]

United Kingdom

• Scottish Government Health Directorates
  • Gender-based violence action plan [2008]

United States of America

• Washington State Department of Health
  • Violence Against Women

WHO

• Pan American Health Organization
  • Violence against Women: The Health Sector Responds [2003]
  • Violence against Women

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Gender-based violence in the Western Pacific Region [2006]
  • Integrating poverty and gender into health programmes - A sourcebook for health professionals: Module on Gender-Based Violence [2005]

• World Health Organization
  • Expert meeting on health-sector responses to violence against women, 17-19 March 2009, Geneva, Switzerland [2010]
  • Addressing violence against women and HIV/AIDS: what works? [2010]
  • Violence Against Women: A Priority Health Issue [1997]
  • Gender-based violence
  • Department of Gender, Women and Health

Articles in journals

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Violence against women: an urgent public health priority [2011]

• Indian Journal of Medical Research
  • Battered bodies & shattered minds: violence against women in Bangladesh [2007]

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• Guidelines
  • Violence
  • Sexual violence, sexual abuse, sexual harassment
  • Domestic violence