Measuring and responding to violence against women in Kiribati - Action on gender inequality as a social determinant of health. World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Western Pacific; 2013.
Publisher's VersionAbstracthttp://iris.wpro.who.int/handle/10665.1/10446
As in many places, gender inequality is prevalent in the Pacific island nation of Kiribati. the WHO commission on Social Determinants of Health underlined in 2008 that gender inequality impacts health through “discriminatory feeding patterns, violence against women, lack of decision-making power, and unfair divisions of work, leisure, and possibilities of improving one’s life,” in addition to limiting access to health care services. A significant consequence of gender inequality is the high level of gender-based violence, including sexual, emotional and physical, perpetrated by intimate partners and non-partners. three years after the final report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health, WHO convened the World Conference on Social Determinants of Health in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in october 2011 to review progress on implementing the recommendations of the commission, draw lessons from experiences and catalyse coordinated global action. this paper was developed in the run-up to the world conference as examples of policy action aimed at tackling key determinants of health and reducing health inequities. covering the period between 2008 and 2011, the paper demonstrates that efforts to measure the extent of a problem can raise political awareness and thereby effectively trigger policy responses on key determinants of gender-based violence and, more broadly, health.
Prior to 2008, health policy-makers were unaware of the prevalence of gender-based violence in Kiribati, as no nationally representative study on the problem had ever been conducted. with support from the Australian government, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Secretariat of the Pacific community (SPC), and drawing on the methodology of the WHO Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence, the kiribati ministry of Internal and social Affairs (MISA) conducted its first family health and support study in 2008. A committee of stakeholders was assembled to guide the research, support its planning and implementation, and provide a longitudinal sense of buy-in and ownership.
Manjoo R.
Papua New Guinea - Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Rashida Manjoo. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; 2013.
Publisher's VersionAbstracthttp://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Women/SRWomen/Pages/CountryVisits.aspx
Find this report under "Papua New Guinea (March 2012);" Report Symbol Number: A/HRC/23/49/Add.2
The present report contains the findings of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, following her visit to Papua New Guinea. The Special Rapporteur examines the situation of violence against women in the country, including violence that is perpetrated within the family and the community; violence occurring in institutional settings; and violence related to the development of the country's extractive industries. She discusses the State's legislative and institutional responses to such violence, and provides recommendations.
Manjoo R.
Solomon Islands - Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Rashida Manjoo. Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights; 2013.
Publisher's VersionAbstract
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Women/SRWomen/Pages/CountryVisits.aspx
Find this report under "Solomon Islands (March 2012);" Report Symbol Number: A/HRC/23/49/Add.1
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, examines the situation of violence against women in Solomon Islands. including violence perpetrated within the family and the community, violence perpetrated between 1998 and 2003 (during “the tensions”) and violence relating to the development of extractive industries. She also examines the State’s legislative and institutional responses to such violence, and makes recommendations thereon.
Taylor CS.
Policing just outcomes: improving the police response to adults reporting sexual assault. Victoria: Social Justice Resource Centre; 2013.
Publisher's VersionAbstracthttp://apo.org.au/node/34661
The prevalence of sexual assault and its consequent harm to both individual victims and society as a whole has now been widely researched, documented and recognised in Western jurisdictions for generations. In particular, policing of this gendered crime has been the subject of many research endeavours and police organisations have increasingly opened their doors to academics and other researchers in pursuit of evidence-based knowledge that will assist them to enhance their training, investigations and Brief preparations in this respect. Victoria Police has been among the foresighted police organisations in this regard over the past several years.
Padilla CR.
Asia Pacific Roundtable: International and Regional Standard setting to eliminate Violence Against Women 2013, in
Asia Pacific Roundtable. Bali, Indonesia ; 2013.
AbstractThis paper provides background information on the international legal and policy framework on
violence against women, plural legal systems and women’s movements for the participants
attending the Asia Pacific Roundtable: International and Regional Standard setting to eliminate
Violence Against Women 2013, set to be held on 7 and 8 Dec, in Bali, Indonesia.
asia_pacific_roundtable_international_and_regional_standard_setting_to_eliminate_vaw_2013-by_clara_rita_padilla.pdf