Violence against Women

Articles

• Division for the Advancement of Women
  UN-ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council of the United Nations) Publication
  
  
• United Nations: Commission on the Status of Women
  
  
• Understanding the Restraining Order Process
  A helpful flow chart illustrating the steps necessary to obtain a restraining order
  
  
• Massachusetts Resources: Domestic Violence
  
  
• Legal Primer on Massachusetts Family Violence Laws
  A summary of Massachusetts Abuse Prevention Law and how it works.
  
  
• Profiling Domestic Violence
  Scientific investigation of the problem of domestic violence is arelatively recent endeavor. It is only within the past 30 years that violence against women has been acknowledged nationally andinternationally as a threat to the health and rights of women as well as to national development. This chapter illuminates the different faces of violence, from the "invisible" suffering of society's most vulnerable individuals to the all-too-visible tragedy of societies.