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Empowering adolescent girls: developing egalitarian gender norms and relations to end violence
On the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child (October 11), this commentary highlights the problem of violence against adolescent girls. It describes the nature and magnitude of violence faced by adolescent girls, what we know about factors that drive violence against women and against...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4216358/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25335989 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4755-11-75 |
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author | Amin, Avni Chandra-Mouli, Venkatraman |
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description | On the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child (October 11), this commentary highlights the problem of violence against adolescent girls. It describes the nature and magnitude of violence faced by adolescent girls, what we know about factors that drive violence against women and against adolescent girls. It highlights the importance of promoting egalitarian gender norms, particularly during adolescence, and empowering women and girls in efforts to end such violence. Finally, it offers lessons learned from some promising interventions in this area. |
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spelling | pubmed-42163582014-11-02 Empowering adolescent girls: developing egalitarian gender norms and relations to end violence Amin, Avni Chandra-Mouli, Venkatraman Reprod Health Commentary On the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child (October 11), this commentary highlights the problem of violence against adolescent girls. It describes the nature and magnitude of violence faced by adolescent girls, what we know about factors that drive violence against women and against adolescent girls. It highlights the importance of promoting egalitarian gender norms, particularly during adolescence, and empowering women and girls in efforts to end such violence. Finally, it offers lessons learned from some promising interventions in this area. BioMed Central 2014-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4216358/ /pubmed/25335989 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4755-11-75 Text en © Amin and Chandra-Mouli; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Amin, Avni Chandra-Mouli, Venkatraman Empowering adolescent girls: developing egalitarian gender norms and relations to end violence |
title | Empowering adolescent girls: developing egalitarian gender norms and relations to end violence |
title_full | Empowering adolescent girls: developing egalitarian gender norms and relations to end violence |
title_fullStr | Empowering adolescent girls: developing egalitarian gender norms and relations to end violence |
title_full_unstemmed | Empowering adolescent girls: developing egalitarian gender norms and relations to end violence |
title_short | Empowering adolescent girls: developing egalitarian gender norms and relations to end violence |
title_sort | empowering adolescent girls: developing egalitarian gender norms and relations to end violence |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4216358/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25335989 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4755-11-75 |
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