“The results demonstrate that targeting only females does not prevent spousal violence against adolescent girls,” said Dr Ruchira Tabassum Naved, senior scientist at ICCDR,B. “Violence against women is preventable even in low-income and patriarchal settings such as those in Dhaka slums,” said Dr Ruchira. Such activism among the female group members in the neighbourhood and their relatives helped to reduce spousal violence against women and girls among non-SAFE members, too. SAFE’s qualitative study found that most female group members were able to either reduce or stop one or another form of spousal violence. Wednesday’s seminar was titled ‘Impact of a Cluster Randomised Control Trial in Reducing Violence against Women and Girls in Urban Slums of Dhaka’.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 17, 2017 18:11 UTC