What exacerbates the violence that women and girls experience by men in their own homes? It turns out – humanitarian crises do.
What exacerbates the violence that women and girls experience by men in their own homes? It turns out — humanitarian crises do. A new study led by the International Rescue Committee, Private Violence, Public Concern, reveals that rapidly changing gender roles triggered by displacement, combined with the breakdown of community structures, and an increase in forced marriage, drives and exacerbates intimate partner violence, often referred to as IPV.