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We are now in the final step of our project and, for this reason, this last contribution of our Blog will frame the main findings arising from the project activities as well as the main responses to our initial needs. In fact, since the beginning this project has aimed to promote adolescents’...

According to the “Osservatorio Adolescenti di Telefono Azzurro” & “Doxa Kids” (2014), in Italy 14% of teenagers (N=1500) received verbal threats or insults. In 2014, 5 out of 10 boys reported to have no problem in beating their girlfriend, and 2 out of 5 girls see it as a demonstration of...

Gender-based violence affects societies all around the world. Its negative impacts on people´s lives have been widely documented by the scientific community in the last decades, demanding all the efforts to prevent and combate it....

In the High School no. 1 in Poznań, teachers have conducted a survey including open-ended questions in order to analyse how students perceived and assess the workshops carried out within the project intervention. Preliminary results show that the pivotal skills and assets fostered by the...

When planning to analyze the effect of an intervention, several questions arise: Does the outcome variable, measured in the same individual, show a change over time? Are the patterns of change different between individuals of the sample? What variables show variation within and between...

From June 4 to 6, Bucharest hosted the international conference "Europe without Violence against Women and Girls - Perspectives of the Istanbul Convention: A New Horizon - Changing the Paradigm for All Decision Makers”. It was organized by the National Agency for Equal Opportunities for Women and...

The UK is one of many nations who support the principles of the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence.  These principles set out the minimum standards expected to prevent violence against women, protect victims and prosecute perpetrators of...

Domestic violence is an important public health problem and an intolerable and unacceptable social reality which demands a strong action and the congregation of multiple efforts of the whole society to defend the integrity and the dignity of women (Walby & Towers, 2017; WHO, 2002). 

Violence against women (VAW) continues to be an alarming phenomenon affecting more and more people, and late legislative developments have, unfortunately, not been able to reduce the number of women who have been assaulted. One of the main problems that lead to the silence of VAW  is the economic...

Violence among adolescent couples, known as dating violence, is defined as the perpetration of physical, psychological and/or sexual violence of one adolescent member of an intimate relationship on the other (Health Canada, 1995). This is an area of research that is relatively recent and seems to...