Sentences with phrase «physical abuse against women»

One of them concerned allegations of physical abuse against women in the Morman church and Morman women who supported the Equal Rights Amendment.

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The details published in The New Yorker include allegations of choking, slapping and other forms of verbal and physical abuse by Schneiderman against women.

NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a frequent antagonist of President Donald Trump, resigned his post following an explosive report that detailed allegations against him of physical abuse by four women.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resigned on Monday evening, a few hours after a bombshell article in The New Yorker detailed accusations by four women of physical abuse against them by Schneiderman.

Yet, despite increased global attention to violence perpetrated against women and girls, and recent advances in knowledge about how to tackle these abuses (Paper 1, Paper 3), levels of violence against women — including intimate partner violence, rape, female genital mutilation, trafficking, and forced marriages — remain unacceptably high, with serious consequences for victims» physical and mental health.

Specifically, higher scores indicating greater levels of discrimination against women on the SIGI, greater gender inequity on the GII, and lower scores on the GGI indicating greater gender gaps are associated with higher rates of child physical abuse and child neglect.

Rates of discrimination against women substantially influence the levels of child physical abuse and child neglect.

But judging by this year's audience reactions to the sold - out showings of both Martin McDonagh's «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» and Dee Rees» «Mudbound,» maybe sentiment concerning matters involving the verbal and physical abuse of women, hate crimes and violence directed at those of different races or creeds and the rise of white supremacy has affected more than just those who voted against the GOP candidate.

The incidence of physical and sexual abuse against both men and women with disabilities is significantly greater than in the general population due to their vulnerability and dependency upon their custodians and care providers.

And before I get slammed for using the female gender for the victim: I recognize that men get abused too, by both male and female partners, but statistically speaking most of the physical abuse in heterosexual relationships is against women and children.

The prevalence and physical and psychological effects of intimate partner violence (IPV), defined as physical, emotional, financial and / or sexual abuse perpetrated against the victim by an intimate partner are well documented among women in the general population.1 — 7 Little is known, however, about the extent and consequences of IPV among immigrant women.

Experiences of violence were measured by the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Child Abuse Screening Tool - Child Institutional (ICAST - CI) 17 and some items from the WHO Multi Country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women.3 Reliability and construct validity for the ICAST - CI were initially established in four countries and the instrument has since been translated into 20 languages and used extensively in multicountry research.17 Lifetime exposure to physical, sexual and emotional violence were constructed as binary variables.