O presente estudo tem por objetivo levantar os dados contidos na literatura referentes ao racismo obstétrico associado à violência obstétrica cometido contra mulheres negras, seus impactos na saúde materna, bem como expor as formas de combate a esse tipo de violência. Trata-se de um estudo fundament...

In 2017 Chile is denounced by the United Nations, together with 37 other countries, for practising forced sterilisation against women and girls with disabilities. This research explores the views of Chilean activists, professionals and researchers on elements that support the continuation of this pr...

The aim of this article is to identify changes in women’s participation in the context of the war against drug trafficking and to visualise some of the implications of these changes for women in the north-west of the country.

A violência contra a mulher trata-se de um relevante problema social e de saúde pública no mundo, tida como uma violação dos direitos humanos gerando danos à saúde física e mental da mulher. O presente artigo tem como objetivo descrever as características dos casos de violência contra crianças e ado...

Pautada na violência de gênero, a violência contra a mulher constitui uma das principais formas de violação dos direitos humanos, o que abrange o direito à vida, integridade física e saúde. Objetivou identificar os impactos que causam sofrimento psíquico nas mulheres vítimas de violência sexual. O m...

RESUMEN Nunca más se refiere al intento de nombrar el horror y la atrocidad, como en el caso de Auschwitz o el "Nunca Más" del informe sobre la desaparición forzada durante la última dictadura en Argentina. Se sostiene que, al ser la violación sexual un acto atroz, la justicia transicional, entendid...

The phenomenon of prostitution is studied as an extreme patriarchal form of violence against women, girls and young people, analysing their origins and developments, revealing female subordination and male domination (patriarchal). The feminist struggles throughout history against prostitution which...

Summary. This article reconstructs the political and social route leading to the declaration of a first general amnesty after the 1948 civil war in Costa Rica. On the basis of official and journalistic sources, the many actors who spoke against and in favour of this legislation are analysed, highlig...

O presente estudo teve o objetivo de quantificar e qualificar o conhecimento dos profissionais de saúde na abordagem da mulher vítima de qualquer tipo de agressão, em um município com altos índices de violência contra esse gênero no sudeste do Pará. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de natureza descritiva, a...

some authors (Lagarde, 2013, Facio, 2011) suggest that in the 90s several years of feminist fighting against patriarchy were reflected in international human rights standards. Other scholars (Segato, 2017) argue that these rules would not have improved women’s lives, in particular as regards their r...

Access to safe housing means that women are able to leave a violent relationship, and the absence thereof, brings women into violence or leaves them on the streets. This article presents the analysis of 135 documents produced on four continents exploring housing solutions for women escaping domestic...

this work presents the results obtained from the analysis of 55 reports of violence against women, selected from the total number of news released in the first half of 2005 in the news of the two public television broadcasters. on the one hand, the structure of the news and, on the other hand, the c...

Introduction. Intimate partner violence (VP) is a complex phenomenon composed of multiple micro and macro structural partners, and a priority for public health. The aim of the study was to identify interventions to prevent the VP targeted at Latin and Hispanoamerican populations through a systematic...

This article analyses the story ‘The death of acacia’ of Colombian writer Marvel Moreno from a multidisciplinary perspective that integrates elements of literary theory, hermentics, sociology and gender studies. In order to go beyond the anecdote narrative and look into the topics proposed by the st...

In 2008 Guatemala passed legislation criminalizing various forms of violence against women and mandating the creation of courts that would specialize in such violence. This article demonstrates that these reforms’ impacts were unevenly felt, with the most marginalized benefiting the least. It explai...

This dossier presents a variety of contra-hegemene expressions that report power disputes and provide unique stories of the dominant official and academic narrative about the conditions and social agency of women in Africa. In return, the stories of women and women — and their absences — are evident...

None more refers to the attempt to name horror and atrocity, as in the case of Auschwitz or ‘Nunca Más’ in the report on forced disappearance during the last dictatorship in Argentina. It is argued that, since sexual rape is an act of atrocity, transitional justice, understood as the search for non-...

This article looks at female sexuality and myths that have condemned women to the background throughout history; it also traces the traces of aggressive behaviour which, in some men, leads to gender-based violence. A literature review of a group of authors who have a prominent place in research on g...

This manuscript is intended to identify the acts associated with violence against women by her spouse or permanent partner. To this end, 612 women from the municipality of Guamo, Colombia, were taken as the target population and live together with their emotional partner. As can be seen from the dat...

Violence against women continues to be a major problem in contemporary societies. The aim of this work is to study how this problem is dealt with in popular music songs in Spain, establishing a link between different musical styles and their description of gender-based violence. To this end, it has...

This article analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the Support Programme for Women’s Entities of Federative Entities (paimef) in Chiapas. It focuses on some of the problems faced by the programme in providing care to women who are victims of violence, which negatively affect the quality of the se...

The article critically reviews the judgments handed down by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in 2009 which, in the opinion of the authors, will be relevant to the region. On the basis of the analysis of the judgments, on the one hand, the issue of violence against women and human rights is e...

The article aims to reflect on the issue of gender-based violence in a Psychoanalytical feminist perspective which, by identifying and enhancing meaningful dissemination, i.e. working with the word, attempts to deconstruct gender notions from a political dimension and to record the norms of hegemoni...