Lancet publishes free series of articles on violence against women and girls

The academic journal The Lancet has published a series focusing on the elimination of  violence against women and girls, which is freely available online.

The Lancet series on violence against women and girls, co-led with the World Health Organization, includes five papers by international experts in their field:

• Prevention of violence against women and girls: what does the evidence say?
• The health-systems response to violence against women
• From work with men and boys to changes of social norms and reduction of inequities in gender relations: a conceptual shift in prevention of violence against women and girls
• Prevention of violence against women and girls: lessons from practice
• Addressing violence against women: a call to action

Register with the Lancet to access the series free of charge.

Discussion of the series and perspectives on violence prevention programmes in Uganda is also available in an audio clip on the website.

Media

World health systems need to be better in preventing violence against women, NZ Doctor, 25.11.2014

Call for urgent action to address global crisis of violence against women and girls, World Health Organization, 21.11.2014