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Interactions between microfinance programmes and non-economic empowerment of women associated with intimate partner violence in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study

was implicated in the evolution of the city’s ethnic demography. Election results at the polling station level further confirm the importance of territory in Karachi’s violent political divisions. The literature on informal economic governance, and its insights on non-state contract enforcement and dispute

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-liberalism has lead to increased social segregation and the segmentation of land ac-cording to a population’s social-economic status and the transformation of the labour market. That is to say, we are experiencing a process of social-spatial segregation which can be defined as the agglomera-tion of families

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on other humans to impose their will on others, by the use, potential or actual, of symbolic or physical violence. Institutions of society are built to enforce power relationships existing in each historical period, including the controls, limits, and social contracts, achieved in the power struggles. More

months, and examine the association between intimate partner violence (IPV)/non-partner vi-olence (NPV) types and predictor variables (demographic, socio-economic and lifestyle factors). A total of 1200 women (aged 15- 45 years) were recruited to participate in this study. Results show that in Mozambique

, racial oppression, social violence and masculinity, in South Africa. Using material from inter-views (of 29 men, in three groups comprising rapists, violent and non-violent men) and surveying thc literature on rape, he exposes and explodes many common myths about

of disaster, its type, its strength, and the damage done, measured in the number of people killed, injured, made homeless or otherwise affected and the economic damage done. Sources include (re)insurance companies, development and disaster aid agencies (non-governmental, national or multilateral