Preventing violence against women and girls in conflict

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9934, 2014, Pages 2021-2022

  Hossain, Mazeda ^a   Zimmerman, Cathy ^a   Watts, Charlotte ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT; CONGO; FEMALE; FORCED MARRIAGE; GENDER BASED VIOLENCE; HUMAN; NOTE; PHYSICAL VIOLENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPE; REFUGEE CAMP; SEXUAL ASSAULT; SEXUAL EXPLOITATION; SEXUAL VIOLENCE; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; HUMAN RIGHTS; REFUGEE; SEXUAL ABUSE; UNITED KINGDOM;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SEX OFFENSES; WAR;

EID: 84902316764     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60964-8     Document Type: Note

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