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arrow for change – eliminating violence against women through health services
Published in 2002
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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 psycho-social health. The prevalence of domestic violence, for example, ranges from 16 per cent in the Philippines to 67 per cent in […]
arrow for change – the impact of globalisation on women’s health
Published in 1998
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The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed rapid and complex global changes- economic, political, cultural and technological- that have greatly influenced almost every aspect of human life including gender relations. The most significant of these globalisation trends include: (1) the rise of a global economic order that opens up financial markets to free flows of commodities […]