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Communities Changing Social Norms to End Female Genital Cutting in West Africa

29/10/2020

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26 pages long

Languages: English

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Tostan’s Community Empowerment Program (CEP) illustrates the transformational power of community-led participatory critical awareness raising and social learning processes to empower people, shift norms, behaviours, and inspire a wider movement. An estimated 5.5 million people across 8,830 communities across West Africa have publicly declared their abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and early marriage, and […]

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Research report

Uprooting our beliefs: Examining social norms contributing to violence against women and girls, including child marriage

01/03/2020

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48 pages long

Languages: English

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Child, early, and forced marriage (CEFM) is one of the most detrimental forms of VAWG and affects 650 million women and girls in the world today. The slow pace of change is largely the result of deeply entrenched cultural values, attitudes and practices that perpetuate gender-based violence and discrimination. With determination to accelerate this progress, […]

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Research report

Education-focused Gender Analysis Case Studies: Pibor and Juba, South Sudan

05/04/2019

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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This study was conducted with funding from the Danish International Development Agency (Danida) provided specifically to prepare for the launch of Oxfam education projects in Pibor and Juba in South Sudan. However, its findings will also be useful to the wider NGO community working in the country, with recommendations provided for the Government of South […]

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Research report

Breaking a Culture of Silence: Social norms that perpetuate violence against women and girls in Nigeria

28/02/2018

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21 pages long

Languages: English

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Violence against women and girls is often perpetuated by practices defended by some community members on the basis of tradition, culture, religion or superstition. These include female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and early marriage. Such harmful traditional practices are underpinned by social norms, the rules of behaviour that people in a group adhere to because they […]

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Journal article

‘Two months of marriage were sufficient to turn my life upside down’: early marriage as a form of gender-based violence

20/07/2016

11 pages long

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‘Two months of marriage were sufficient to turn my life upside down’: early marriage as a form of gender-based violence

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In Morocco, as elsewhere, early marriage of young women and girls below the age of 18 exposes them to different forms of social, sexual, physical, psychological, and financial violence. This article focuses on the experience of Moroccan women married under the age of 18 and proposes an analytical framework to support better understanding of the […]

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Communities Changing Social Norms to End Female Genital Cutting in West Africa

Uprooting our beliefs: Examining social norms contributing to violence against women and girls, including child marriage

Education-focused Gender Analysis Case Studies: Pibor and Juba, South Sudan

Breaking a Culture of Silence: Social norms that perpetuate violence against women and girls in Nigeria

‘Two months of marriage were sufficient to turn my life upside down’: early marriage as a form of gender-based violence