Description: Sexual Violence Extends Beyond Conflict

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Sexual Violence Extends Beyond Conflict

To address sexual violence only during humanitarian emergencies is to ignore the endemic nature of violence against women on a global scale and its adverse impact on the development of a country.

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Main Author:	Wachter, Karin
Published:	World Bank 2012
Subjects:	consequences of violence depression emergencies families forms of violence girls human rights mental health mental health problems mother number of women public health rape rape victim sexual assault sexual violence social development status of women violence against women woman
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4585

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Summary:	To address sexual violence only during humanitarian emergencies is to ignore the endemic nature of violence against women on a global scale and its adverse impact on the development of a country.