the due diligence standard in international law and its role in the protection of women against violence / Joanna Bourke …-Martignoni -- Preventing violence against women : the due diligence standard with respect to the obligation to banish gender stereotypes on the … principle in Asia Pacific / Lisa Pusey -- South Africa's response to domestic violence / Dee Smythe -- Violence against women by …

topics covered: • The intersection of women’s health and poverty. • Poverty, personal experiences of violence, and mental … social problems as they affect the lives of low-income women. A robust source of both empirical findings and first …-person descriptions by poor women of their living conditions, it exposes cyclical patterns of structural and environmental stressors …