Sentences with phrase «reduce sexual violence»

The new act brings in wide - ranging reforms to reduce sexual violence, and to protect and empower survivors.

Available at participating venues throughout London, the «Ask for Angela» initiative aims to reduce sexual violence and vulnerability by providing customers with a non-descript phrase they can use to gain assistance from staff members in order to be separated from the company of someone with whom they feel unsafe due to that person's actions, words or behaviour.

The research shows that reducing sexual violence could reduce HIV infection rates by around a fifth, in both high - and low - income settings, and improving access to ART could prevent around a third of HIV infections in low - income settings.

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Although Global Times acknowledges that sexual violence is a problem in China, as it is in other countries, it also stresses that «social movements can only play a limited role in reducing sexual harassment.»

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The difficulty was that in response to the pressure to reduce violence, Hollywood began to increase the amount of sexual titillation.

If the churches could agree on such a strategy, the amount of violence and sexual violence might be reduced considerably.

Clearly, violence and sexual violence in the media must be reduced.

Continuing, the Force Commander noted that the mandate of the MNJTF among other responsibilities empowers it to «create a safe and secure environment in the areas affected by the activities of Boko Haram terrorism and other terrorist groups, in order to significantly reduce violence and other abuses, including sexual and gender based violence, in full compliance with international law».

In fact, many researchers have reached the opposite conclusion: that increased availability of porn correlates with healthier attitudes towards sex, and with steadily reducing rates of sexual violence.

Newsday calls Cuomo's bill combatting sexual harassment on college campuses a «good start,» but also is concerned the bill «doesn't require college administrators to report allegations of sexual violence to law enforcement,» adding: «These are crimes, and the way to take them out of the shadows and reduce their stigma is to treat them like any other felony.»

Until then, Cuomo is pushing New York's colleges to reduce incidents of sexual violence and hold those institutions accountable.

I want to focus on reducing gun and gang violence, addressing public corruption and keeping children safe from internet and sexual predators.

«This may inform primary prevention programs to reduce the continuum of sexual violence that women disproportionately experience.»

While many sexual violence prevention programs have been developed, few have been rigorously evaluated and even fewer have been shown to actually reduce sexual victimization.

Research has consistently proven that addressing the social and emotional needs of adolescents reduces questionable actions that lead to aggression, violence, drug abuse, and premature sexual activity.

«The impact of a middle school program to reduce aggression, victimization, and sexual violence.»

Long - term effects of childhood sexual violence include substance misuse, early sexual debut, more sexual partners, trading sex for financial gain and less use of contraception, as well as interpersonal difficulties, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal behaviour.44 — 51 Our results imply that interventions to reduce peer - related violence among primary school children could be beneficial for mental health, as well as for sexual and reproductive health in this population.

She is currently funded by the National Institute of Mental Health to develop an intervention to reduce dating violence and sexual risk behaviors among adolescent girls with prior dating violence exposure.

The National Plan focuses on stopping violence before it happens in the first place, supporting women who have experienced violence, stopping men from committing violence, and building the evidence base so that we learn more about «what works» in reducing domestic and family violence and sexual assault.

It does this by partnering with stakeholders to address health, wellbeing and health care for all children, young people and families, in addition to reducing the health impact of sexual, domestic and family violence, child abuse and neglect.

It is designed to reduce negative emotional and behavioral responses following child sexual abuse, domestic violence, traumatic loss, and other traumatic events.

The study aims to determine whether receiving the Second Step intervention in middle school reduces youth aggression, sexual violence, and substance use, and teen dating violence when in high school; to evaluate Second Step program effects on trajectories of bullying, victimization, homophobic teasing, sexual harassment, and teen dating violence in high school, and to examine the relations among growth in aggression and substance use.

The Family Institute will be at the forefront of this national, empirically supported effort to significantly and dramatically reduce intimate partner violence and sexual misconduct.

«Currently, Nan is working on the third stage of a study, Shifting Boundaries, which evaluates classroom lessons and school - wide interventions in middle schools intended to reduce sexual harassment and precursors to teen dating violence.

The goal of the programs is to prevent or reduce incidences of teen dating violence perpetration and victimization and incidences of sexual violence in intimate adolescent relationships.

School - Based Interventions to Reduce Dating and Sexual Violence include a range of universal - level programs aimed at increasing students» knowledge about teen dating violence; changing attitudes or beliefs supportive of teen dating violence; improving conflict - management skills; and encouraging peer support and bystander invoViolence include a range of universal - level programs aimed at increasing students» knowledge about teen dating violence; changing attitudes or beliefs supportive of teen dating violence; improving conflict - management skills; and encouraging peer support and bystander invoviolence; changing attitudes or beliefs supportive of teen dating violence; improving conflict - management skills; and encouraging peer support and bystander invoviolence; improving conflict - management skills; and encouraging peer support and bystander involvement.

Shifting Boundaries is an intervention designed to reduce the incidence and prevalence of dating violence and sexual harassment among adolescents.