Sentences with phrase «violence in a cultural context»

REACH Edmonton provides training to prevent family violence in a cultural context.

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In this novel Atwood does not abandon biblical history to those who have muted female testimony; instead, she imaginatively writes this testimony back into cultural contexts that would destroy it utterly and that fail to do so, even as she reveals the violence in any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silencIn this novel Atwood does not abandon biblical history to those who have muted female testimony; instead, she imaginatively writes this testimony back into cultural contexts that would destroy it utterly and that fail to do so, even as she reveals the violence in any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silencin any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silence.

«We think that the way questions are asked could impact the discovery of violence in various cultural contexts, and this is borne out in the results we obtained,» Martín de las Heras adds.

Major drivers to out - of - home care or poorer outcomes subsequent to care include lack of role models, increased rates of autism amongst children, inter-generational trauma, placement in non-indigenous contexts and lack of understanding of cultural connections and community input, the influence of substance abuse and incarceration, and, critically, male domestic violence.

«From an Aboriginal perspective, the experience of family violence must be understood in the historical context of white settlement and colonisation and their resulting (and continuing) impacts: cultural dispossession, breakdown of community kinship systems and Aboriginal law, systemic racism and vilification, social and economic exclusion, entrenched poverty, problematic substance use, inherited grief and trauma, and loss of traditional roles and status (Aboriginal Affairs Victoria 2008).»

The Committee has also stated that female genital mutilation is a practice that breaches article 6 and 7 of the Covenant, despite the cultural significance of the practice in some societies (80); and has expressed concern about domestic violence, including forced sexual intercourse, within the context of marriage.