Arrows For Change articles from September 2002

Arrows For Change archives from September 2002

Eliminating violence against women through health services.
September 1, 2002... Violence against women (VAW) in the forms of domestic violence, coercive sex, rape and trafficking in women, remains common in the lives of many Asian and Pacific women, seriously affecting their physical and psychological health. The...

Inter-country collaboration to serve survivors of violence. (Services).
September 1, 2002... As a follow up to Bangladesh's commitment to implement the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs convened an Inter-Ministerial Working Group in August 1996 to formulate the Multi-Sectoral Programme on...

Confronting VAW in a community-based primary health care programme. (Programme).(violence against women)
September 1, 2002... Lina, 34, a community health worker (CHW) in Letre, Malabon, a poor community close to the fishing port northeast of Manila, has just finished counselling Melissa *, an 11-year old and her mother during a follow-up visit. The mother had first...

Monitoring country activities. (Ahead With Cairo & Beijing).
September 1, 2002... These are some of the innovative and pioneering services in the Asia-Pacific region for survivors of violence against women: India * With the aim to sensitise the public health system to gender and violence issues, the Centre for...

Heise, Lori; Ellsberg, Mary; Gottemoeller, Megan. 1999. "Ending Violence Against Women." Population Reports, Series L. No. 11.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Baltimore: Population Information Program, John Hopkins University School of Public Health (JHUSPH); Takoma Park: Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE). Vol. XXVII, No. 4, December. 43p. This themed issue focuses on abuse within...

Satia, Jay; Hii, Mariam S. (eds.). 2001. Innovative Approaches to Population Programme Management: Violence Against Women. Innovations.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Selangor, Malaysia: International Council on Management of Population Programmes (ICOMP). Vol. 9. 140p. ICOMP conceptualised the Innovative Approaches to Population Programme Management series to derive lessons from innovative programme...

Schornstein, Sherri L. 1997. Domestic Violence and Health Care: What Every Professional Needs to Know.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... California: SAGE Publications, Inc. 186p. Medical professionals have the unique opportunity to intervene in domestic violence cases, but many are not trained or do not know how to do so. This book is for them. It contains practical tools to...

Stevens, Lynne. 2001. A Practical Approach to Gender-based Violence: A Programme Guide for Health Care Providers & Managers.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Pilot Edition. New York: UNFPA. 67 p. Staff in women's health settings, especially those in reproductive and sexual health, maternal child health, and prenatal settings, play a critical role in intervention against VAW. The three...

UNICEF. 2001. A Reference Kit on Violence Against Women and Girls in South Asia.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Kathmandu: UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia. 62 p. This reference kit is part of UNICEF's broader efforts to confront structural inequities in order to improve the lives of women and children and establish a more equitable society. It...

Women's Crisis Center (WCC). 2000. Manual on Setting Up a Hospital-based Crisis Center for Abused Women and Children.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Manila: WCC. 58p. The Women and Children's Crisis Center and Protection Unit (WCCCPU), together with a government hospital, developed a project to provide medical, surgical, health and psychological services to women survivors and their...

Working Group of the Women's Crisis Centre Network. 2000. Becoming Whole: A Handbook for Working with Abused Women.(Book Review)
September 1, 2002... Penang: Women's Crisis Centre; National Council of Women's Organisations, Penang Branch. 130p. A handbook for working with abused women, it was first published in 1990 by the Women's Crisis Centre (WCC), Penang. It represented the...

Other resources.
September 1, 2002... ARROW. 2001. "Violence Against Women". Women's Health Needs and Rights in Southeast Asia--A Beijing Monitoring Report. Kuala Lumpur: ARROW. pp.23-27. Bagshaw, Dale; et al. 1999. Reshaping Responses to Domestic Violenco Executive Summary....

Arrow's publications.
September 1, 2002... ARROW. 2000. Women's Health Needs and Rights in Southeast Asia. A Beijing Monitoring Report. Kuala Lumpur: ARROW. 39p. * Price: US$10.00 plus US$3.00 postal charges. Rashidah Abdullah. 2000. A Framework of Indicators for Action on...

Domestic violence. (Definitions).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Includes physical, sexual or psychological aggression or coercion and is a pattern of behaviour employed by one person in a relationship to control the other. The abuse is typically directed at women and girls and can create health, social and...

Marital rape. (Definitions).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Marital rape can be defined as any unwanted intercourse or penetration (vaginal, anal, or oral) obtained y force, threat of force, or when the wife is unable to consent. Source: Bergen, 1996; Pagelow, 1984; Russell, 1990 in Violence...

One-stop crisis centre. (Definitions).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... This is based on the concept of integrated and coordinated teamwork of a multi-sectoral and interagency network for the management of survivors of violence against women and children. It aims to serve the survivors in identification and...

Violence against women. (Definitions).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public...

Changing trends in VAW legislation in Asia and the Pacific. (Factfile).(violence against women)
September 1, 2002... Since the Cairo Conference in 1994 and the Beijing Conference in 1995, countries have begun to attempt to address concerns on violence against women (VAW) in their legislation. One example of this is that more countries now have separate laws...