To understand laws pertaining to gender-based violence (GBV) in countries with high HIV prevalence particularly among … adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), we reviewed GBV laws and regulations from initial ten eastern and southern African …

Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women in conflict and non-conflict settings, but … intimate partner violence. It also examines the effect of the Boko Haram insurgency on women's experience of controlling …'s experiences of physical and sexual intimate partner violence. Controlling behaviors from husbands/partners and reductions in women …

paper illustrates how the language used to describe violence against women may act to minimise these acts and the dominant … perception in the context of the criminal justice system. In particular, we consider the language of domestic violence and sexual … conversational style and female violence victims’ genderlect may collide to produce evidentiary issues and a credibility gap. We …