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Chae, Sophia; Ngo, Thoai D. – Population Council, 2017
Growing recognition of the harmful effects of child marriage has placed its elimination on the global and national agenda. To address this problem, the authors reviewed the global state of evidence on what works to prevent child marriage. Their research focuses exclusively on rigorously evaluated interventions, defined as interventions evaluated…
Descriptors: Marriage, Children, World Problems, Prevention
Association of Commonwealth Universities, 2019
'Extending the welcome', a symposium convened in March 2019, brought together participants from a dozen countries across public, private and academic spheres to discuss the education gap faced by refugees and displaced people and what universities can do to help bridge that gap. Through a discussion of findings and best practice from already…
Descriptors: Refugees, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Conferences (Gatherings)
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Sambisa, William; Angeles, Gustavo; Lance, Peter M.; Naved, Ruchira T.; Thornton, Juliana – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
This study explores the prevalence and correlates of past-year physical violence against women in slum and nonslum areas of urban Bangladesh. The authors use multivariate logistic regression to analyze data from the 2006 Urban Health Survey, a population-based survey of 9,122 currently married women aged between 15 and 49 who were selected using a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Family Violence, Marital Status, Females