SVAW - Domestic Violence: Research and Reports

General Resources

There are a number of excellent websites that provide comprehensive information about all of the thematic issues covered in Domestic Violence: Explore the Issue, as well as many internet gateways to further information on violence against women.

General International Reports on Domestic Violence

World Report 2002: Women’s Human Rights, Human Rights Watch.

Women 2000: An Investigation into the Status of Women’s Rights in the former Soviet Union and Central and South-Eastern Europe, International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, 9 November 2000. [PDF, 546 pages].

World Report 1999: Women’s Human Rights, Human Rights Watch.

Global Report, Family Violence Prevention Fund.
Provides links to selected articles that appear in “Ending Domestic Violence: Report From the Global Frontlines” (1998), edited by Leni Marin, Helen Zia and Esta Soler, on domestic violence work being done in Brazil, Cambodia, China, India, Ireland, Russia, South Africa and the United States.

Global Report on Women’s Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, 1 August 1995.
Includes a brief section devoted to issues of domestic violence.

Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds: Torture and Ill-Treatment of Women, Amnesty International, 2001. [PDF, 15 pages].
Discusses domestic violence as a form of torture and outlines state responsibilities to take steps to combat this violence.

What Will It Take? Stopping Violence Against Women: A Challenge to Governments, Human Rights Watch Backgrounder, June 2000.
Assesses global progress on violence against women in the five years since the 1995 Beijing Conference and recommends areas for continued action.

Justice, Change, and Human Rights: International Research and Responses to Domestic Violence, Barbara Burton, Nata Duvvury & Nisha Varia, 2000. [PDF, 31 pages].
Compares and evaluates programs funded by Promoting Women in Development (PROWID).

Toolkit to End Violence Against Women, National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women & the Department of Justice’s Violence Against Women Office, 2001.
Provides concrete anti-violence strategies for advocates, legal and medical professionals, members of the clergy, the media, and educational institutions.

Women’s Rights are Human Rights, Human Rights Quarterly, Special Issue on Women’s Rights, Spring 2000.

Research Gateways

The following websites are gateways to additional articles, studies, brochures, manuals, fact sheets, research, and information packets on domestic violence: