Sexual violence against women and girls in South Sudan

This article presents the results of a qualitative study on the context and different forms of violence committed against women and girls in South Sudan. The study documents many forms of sexual and physical violence against women and girls in South Sudan, including conflict-related sexual violence, intimate partner violence, nonpartner sexual violence, child and forced marriage, and abduction. Violence occurred during three overarching contexts: armed conflict, gender inequality, and the economic crisis. The custom of bride price, combined with the economic crisis, is a key driver of many other forms of violence.

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Physical, sexual and psychological intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence against women and girls: a systematic review protocol for producing global, regional and country estimates

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045574 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (8) ◽

pp. e045574

Author(s):

Heidi Stöckl ◽

Lynnmarie Sardinha ◽

Mathieu Maheu-Giroux ◽

Sarah R Meyer ◽

Claudia García-Moreno

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Sexual Violence ◽

Violence Against Women ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Population Based ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Sustainable Development Goal ◽

Development Goal ◽

Women And Girls ◽

Forms Of Violence

IntroductionIn 2013, the WHO published the first global and regional estimates on physical and sexual intimate partner violence (IPV) and non-partner sexual violence (NPSV) based on a systematic review of population-based prevalence studies. In this protocol, we describe a new systematic review for the production of updated estimates for IPV and NPSV for global monitoring of violence against women, including providing the baseline for measuring Sustainable Development Goal to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls.Methods and analysisThe systematic review will update and extend the previous search for population-based surveys (either nationally or subnationally representative) conducted among women aged 15+ years that measured the prevalence of physical, sexual, psychological and physical and/or sexual IPV, NPSV or sexual violence by any perpetrator up to December 2019. Data will be extracted separately for all age groups, setting (urban/rural), partnership status (currently partnered/ever partnered/all women) and recall period (lifetime prevalence/past 12 months). Studies will be identified from electronic searches of online databases of EMBASE, MEDLINE, Global Health and PsycInfo. A search of national statistics office homepages will be conducted for each country to identify reports on population-based, national or subnational studies that include data on IPV or NPSV published outside academic journals. Two reviewers will be involved in quality assessment and data extraction of the review. The review is planned to be updated on a continuous basis. All findings will undergo a country consultation process.Ethics and disseminationFormal ethical approval is not required, as primary data will not be collected. This systematic review will provide a basis and a follow-up tool for global monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goal Target 5.2 on the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42017054100.

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Marital Rape: The Long Arch of Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls

AJIL Unbound ◽

10.1017/s2398772300001689 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 109 ◽

pp. 326-331 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michele Goodwin

Keyword(s):

Sexual Violence ◽

Violence Against Women ◽

Rape Victims ◽

Marital Rape ◽

The Public ◽

Women And Girls ◽

Severe Degree ◽

Affirmative Defense

If no permanent injury has been inflicted, nor malice, cruelty nor dangerous violence shown by the husband, it is better to draw the curtain, shut out the public gaze, and leave the parties to forget and forgive.State v. Oliver, 70 N.C. 60, 62 (1874)Prologue: The ContextSadly, sexual violence against women and girls remains deeply entrenched and politicized around the globe. Perhaps no other allegation of crime exposes a woman’s credibility to such intense hostility and imposes the penalties of shame and stigma to a more severe degree than alleging rape. Factors irrelevant to sexual violence, including the victim’s choice of clothing, hairstyle, and time of the attack frequently serve as points of searching inquiry, and scrutiny. Such extraneous points of critique further compound an atmosphere of shaming and stigmatization associated with sexual violence, but are seen as crucial in bolstering an affirmative defense and inevitably building the case against rape victims.

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The Role and Effect of Mass Media on Rape and Sexual Violence against Women and Girls: A case study of South Kivu in Democratic Republic of the Congo

10.7176/nmmc/80-07 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Mass Media ◽

Sexual Violence ◽

Violence Against Women ◽

Democratic Republic ◽

Republic Of The Congo ◽

Women And Girls ◽

South Kivu

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Cultural Impact and an Intimate Partner aggression in African Societies: A comparison of Rwanda and South Sudan

European Journal of Social Sciences ◽

10.26417/ejss.v1i3.p170-177 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 170

Author(s):

Owen Ndoromo

Keyword(s):

Violence Against Women ◽

South Sudan ◽

Partner Aggression ◽

Cultural Impact ◽

Cultural Violence ◽

South Sudanese ◽

Before And After ◽

Women And Girls ◽

Intimate Partner Aggression

The study investigated the role of cultural impact on South Sudanese and Rwandan women who nowadays reside in the diaspora in Finland and Belgium. It explores the cultural violence against women before and after the 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis, and after the independency of South Sudan. This argument is presented through an analysis of existing literature and documents; and through interviews with 341 respondents (166 men and 175 women) belonging to the Rwandan diaspora in Belgium and in Finland; and 420 participants (302 females and 118 males) married, divorced, single mothers in South Sudan. The results show that women and girls in South Sudan continue to be at risk of violence from cultural impact more than Rwandan women. Poverty, education, and insecurity play a huge role in promoting aggression against South Sudanese women.

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‘Risk of sexual violence against women and girls’ in the construction of ‘gender-neutral toilets’: a discourse analysis of comments on YouTube videos

Journal of Gender-Based Violence ◽

10.1332/239868020x15894511554617 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 359-376

Author(s):

Ben Colliver ◽

Adrian Coyle

Keyword(s):

Sexual Violence ◽

Public Space ◽

Violence Against Women ◽

Violence Risk ◽

Transgender People ◽

Gender Neutral ◽

Media Interaction ◽

Youtube Videos ◽

Women And Girls ◽

A Site

This article considers how the risk of sexual violence against women and girls is topicalised in social media interaction about ‘gender-neutral toilets’. In particular, it examines how versions of the category of ‘transgender people’ are assigned a key role within the construction of sexual violence risk. A discursive analysis is presented of 1,756 online comments in response to ten YouTube videos relating to gender-neutral toilets. The analysis focuses on one theme entitled ‘Gender-neutral toilets as a site of sexual danger’ and its constituent sub-themes. The phenomenon of gender-neutral toilets was responded to with a limited set of gendered tropes that constructed and positioned stakeholders in culturally recognisable ways. Women and children were constructed as vulnerable to sexual violence, at risk from men (including versions of ‘transgender women’) and in need of protection. This transformed a debate over public space into a question of morality. The analysis contributes to existing literature by focusing on the discursive features involved in the construction of risk, and the implications of these constructions in minimising the need to address social structures that position transgender people as legitimate targets of violence.

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