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This 1-pager provides guidance to men who are looking for ways to challenge and help end violence against women, including self-examination and peer education.

This article offers insight into how we might tailor sexual violence prevention programs to specifically address issues of re-victimization.

This article presents key findings from the Chicago Women’s Health Study about domestic violence, its effects, and women’s responses to violence.

This policy establishes procedures for handling acts of domestic violence committed by police officers and for implementing prevention strategies.

The Maputo Protocol is a treaty instrument that is binding on all countries that ratify it. Proponents of the Maputo Protocol present it as a method of combating female genital mutilation in Africa, where it is more common than elsewhere.

This report offers a catalogue of programs targeting prevention of first-time male perpetration of sexual violence. The report provides an overview of literature findings on sexual violence prevention and a detailed description of steps used to obtain information about existing programs in this substantive area.

In 2002, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded RTI International to identify programs designed to prevent first-time male perpetration of sexual violence and to provide&evaluation assistance to a subset of these programs. RTI conducted an environmental scan to identify programs in the relatively new field of prevention of first-time perpetration of sexual violence. The current report provides updated information on 23 of the original 37 programs and adds information on 36 new programs that have been developed since the 2003 report.

This issue presents an overview of resources and articles that provide insight to those seeking to understand sexual violence utilizing the public health model.

Provides an analysis of domestic violence prevention efforts and presents recommendations for promising approaches. Strategies to close gaps in efforts to effectively prevent IPV in the lives of adolescents and young adults are identified.

This curriculum provides over 30 classroom sessions to help young people build healthy multi-cultural communities and prevent violence.

Describes an approach that seeks to engage men as allies by creating campaign messages that validate men's hidden feelings and beliefs in order to foster an environment where speaking out against violence against women is socially acceptable

This resource guide describes a five-phased process of community mobilization, using five key strategies and participatory activities. The goal is to help organizations develop and implement a domestic violence project in their communities. Included here are full color examples of communication materials, a comprehensive community activism course, and planning, monitoring, and documentation tools.