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Research data: GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
2020 When higher education increases women's risk for intimate partner violence: the case for a multipronged preventative approach to tackling gender-based violence
The socioeconomic empowerment of women is seen as critical to gender equality, the absence of which is associated with high rates of gender-...
2020 Intimate partner violence in older South African women: an analysis of the 2016 Demographic and Health Survey
South Africa (SA) has one of the highest rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) in the world. It is also in the midst of a demographic tra...
2017 "This thing of the victim has to prove that the perp intented to assault is kak!": social media responses to sexual violence on South African university campuses
Since 2015 South African universities have emerged as central sites for the decolonial project which has manifested through various movement...
2017 A twenty-year review of policy landscape for gender-based violence in South Africa
The struggle for liberation, equity and equality in South Africa has come a long way to the point where South Africa has celebrated twenty y...