Victims of sexual assault experience their trauma in different ways, and often one path to recovery and healing is right for one person, but not right for another. While there are some general ment…
The Amnesty International Report 2013 documents the state of human rights during 2012. The Foreword and the country-by-country survey of 159 individual countries and territories set out a global …
Women’s rights advocates in the United States have long argued that violence against women denies women equality and citizenship, but it took a movement of feminist activists and lawyers, beginni…
Marriage is one phase of life for both men and women. The concept and de!inition of marriages varies between cultures, dependent on the function and the purpose of the marriage itself. In general, …
Polygamy is a marriage with more than one partner. This could be practiced by men or women. Marriage of men with more than one woman is called a Polygyny. While marriage of a woman with more than o…
In this study, the deinition of forced marriages is the practice of marriages when one party is coerced, usually to women, as the party considered to violate tradition or other reasons related to …
Culture accommodates knowledge and rules, or values used by its community, to determine an action. In culture, norms, whether it’s good or bad, are formed: when an individual in a speci!ic tradit…
Mixed marriages discussed in this study is the mixed marriages due to difference in ethnics (sub-ethnic)/village, faith, caste, class and social status, even citizenship. The policy on marriage, na…
The practice of widow -burning combines strong spiritual beliefs in the hereafter with the more secular power strunnles of this world, both between the sexes and social groups. "Following into deat…
The worksop introduced and emphasized current concepts and approaches to the issue of domestic violence, namely rights-based and restorative approaches to legislation, as mere punitive measures can…
In 1998, the author, a feminist lawyer, carried out a research project on behalf of Oxfam GB, studying Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and Albania. Maguire disc…
Restorative Justice for Domestic Violence Victims uses a rich and detailed set of interviews and complementary survey data to make a strong case for introducing restorative justice principles into …
The focus is on domestic violence in Vietnam, particularly the violence of husband against their wives within marriage. Domestic violence has recently resurfaced as a serious problem in Vietnam sin…
This research paper analyzes the laws of eight countries in Southeast Asia that address DV from the international human rights norms and standards and provides recommendations on how these laws sho…
A workshop report about drafting and adoption of national domestic violence legislation in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam will make an important contribution to both the local and global ad…
Kekerasan dalam rumah tangga adalah sebuah fenomena yang hingga saat ini merupakan kekejaman yang amat sulit untuk di pantau. Buku ini secara ringkas menjelaskan mengenai tindak kekerasan dalam ru…
Increasing levels of global conflict and political violence provide a critical challenge for development theorists and practitioners. Many countries have endured decades of armed conflict, and othe…
This book has explored the social and political meaning of legal claims in feminist struggle, and particularly within the development of theoritical framework. This theoretical perspective on the r…
This publication is intended to contribute to promoting systematic international co-operation in coping with the problem as one of the major obstacles to the implementation of the provisions in the…
The intent of this manual is to provide guidelines which will enable crisis interventionists from all walks of life to understand the victims (survivors) of domestic violence and to assist such ind…