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Intersection of Human Rights and Violence Against Women

November 5, 2009

posted in: Prevention

The journal Violence Against Women has published online a study suggesting that a human rights approach is more holistic.  As I have blogged before, a human rights approach to violence against women prevention is common everywhere in the world except the United States. What do you think?  Would the rape and domestic violence prevention movement

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Violence Against Women as a Human Rights Violation

October 26, 2009

posted in: Prevention

When violence against women is described in international work it is seen as a human rights issue.  When violence against women is described in the United States it is typically framed as a “personal issue” to be addressed as a criminal matter. I have heard Loretta Ross describe why we need to apply a human

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