In April 2007, WHO held an expert meeting on preventing intimate partner violence and sexual violence. WHO produced a background paper for the meeting. The paper explores what can be done to prevent violence against adolescent and adult women that occurs within intimate relationships, and sexual violence that occurs outside intimate relationships.
The seventh volume for this NSVRC publication! Featured inside: 10 Years of VAWA and Medical Screening in Rural Areas, Coalition Spotlight, and more . . .
Publish Date
Spring/Summer 2004
Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder, Assessing Online Advocacy, RAINN & Online Hotline and more . . .
Publish Date
Spring/Summer 2005
This toolkit provides facts about emergency contraception for rape survivors, tools and strategies to assess the need for increased access, and four strategies to increase access. The four strategies discussed are legislation, administrative efforts, litigation and voluntary efforts.
This guide provides information on the prevalence of sexual violence and HIV, types of available HIV testing and treatment, benefits and risks of such testing and treatment, victims’ possible fears surrounding HIV, sexual offender testing, and steps victim service professionals can take to meet the needs of sexual violence
This report summarizes the sexual violence information found in the World Report on Violence and Health from the World Health Organization. It looks at prevalence and risk factors of sexual violence, as well as promising sexual prevention approaches from around the world.
Publish Date
2004
This NSVRC publication provides advocates, practitioners, and educators with a guide for developing a comprehensive community approach to the primary prevention of sexual violence.