Adolescent Girls’ Safety In and Out of School: Evidence on Physical and Sexual Violence from Across Sub-Saharan Africa

Evans, David K.; Hares, Susannah; Holland, Peter Anthony; Acosta, Amina Mendez

doi:10.1080/00220388.2023.2172333

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“…The first is that researchers use data originating from big, representative, multinational surveys (e.g. Evans et al, 2023;Leach, 2003) or undertake extensive literature reviews (e.g. Dunne, Humphreys & Leach, 2006) to shed light on gender violence in the so-called developing world.…”

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“…Leach (2003: 392) concludes that teachers abuse their position of authority and that female learners are their "property". The study by Evans et al (2023) used two nationally represented surveys, namely the Violence against Children and Youth Survey and the Demographic and Health Survey to compare rates of physical and sexual violence of girls aged 15 to 19 in sub-Saharan African countries. Using data from the Demographic and Health Survey, Evans et al (2023) found that 20,8% of girls across 20 sub-Saharan countries experienced sexual violence.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Sexual violence and harassment in South African schools: Findings from a media study

2024

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This qualitative media study, undertaken within an interpretative research paradigm, aims to expand our knowledge of sexual violence perpetrated against learners in South African public and private schools. Due to ethical, normative and methodological barriers surrounding research on sexual violence in schools, South African English language newspapers were used as data source. The SA Media database was utilised to identify 153 relevant newspaper articles published in the period of 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2022. Themes were identified by means of qualitative content analysis. The findings shed light on the extent of sexual violence in schools, the acceptance and normalisation of teacheron-learner sexual violence, the exploitation of learners' academic and athletic aspirations by teachers and coaches, and the imbalance of power and consequent abuse of power in a country where hegemonic masculinity prevails. Moreover, the study found teachers, coaches, caregivers, taxi drivers and fellow learners to be perpetrators of sexual violence. The study also highlights the negative effects of sexual violence on the victims' academic, mental, physical and social wellbeing. Drawing on Galtung's typology of violence, three dimensions of violence, namely personal or direct violence, indirect or structural and cultural violence were identified. This multidimensional interpretation emphasises the need to address this scourge on direct, structural and cultural levels.

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Sexual violence and harassment in South African schools: Findings from a media study

2024

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“…Risk factors for experiencing polyvictimization span each sphere of the social ecological model [ 13 ]. Individual level risk factors for polyvictimization include school enrollment (although the evidence is mixed; in some settings it is protective and in others, it is a risk factor) [ 31 , 32 ] older adolescent age [ 31 ], having a disability [ 33 ], being an orphan [ 34 ], the ways and places an adolescent spends their free time (in particular, spending more time alone, in public spaces, or with a dating partner), and adolescent alcohol use, drug use, or smoking [ 13 ]. The types of violence that adolescents experience may also be gendered.…”

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Polyvictimization and Adolescent Health and Well-Being in Ethiopia: The Mediating Role of Resilience

Miller,

Butera,

Ellsberg

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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Interpersonal violence is a pervasive experience affecting one billion children and adolescents annually, resulting in adverse health and well-being outcomes. Evidence suggests that polyvictimization, the experience of multiple forms of violence, is associated with more harmful consequences for adolescents than experiencing individual types of violence, although data from low-and middle-income countries are limited. This study analyzed data on over 4100 adolescents from the Gender and Adolescence, Global Evidence Study in Ethiopia to examine the association between polyvictimization and adolescent mental and physical health and the mediating role of resilience using linear regression and path analysis. We hypothesized that adolescents experiencing polyvictimization would experience worse mental and physical health than those experiencing no types or individual types of victimization, and that resilience would mediate these relationships. Half of sampled girls and over half of boys experienced polyvictimization. Among both sexes, polyvictimization was associated with worse mental but not worse physical health. Resilience mediated the association between polyvictimization and mental health among girls only. Strengthening resilience among girls may be an effective avenue for mitigating polyvictimization’s negative mental health effects, but additional research and programming for preventing and identifying polyvictimized adolescents and linking them to care is needed.

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Sexual Violence Against Female Children in Liberia: A Cross-Sectional Study of Statutory Rape Prevalence Rates Related to Correlates of Gender Equity

Hanson-DeFusco,

Dunn,

Smith

2024

J. Hum. Rights Soc. Work

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Adolescent Girls’ Safety In and Out of School: Evidence on Physical and Sexual Violence from Across Sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 6 publications

References 52 publications

Sexual violence and harassment in South African schools: Findings from a media study

Sexual violence and harassment in South African schools: Findings from a media study

Polyvictimization and Adolescent Health and Well-Being in Ethiopia: The Mediating Role of Resilience

Sexual Violence Against Female Children in Liberia: A Cross-Sectional Study of Statutory Rape Prevalence Rates Related to Correlates of Gender Equity

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