Course on Women and girls: violence against women - issues, research and policy

Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) and London Metropolitan University

London, England

Five day intensive course

The course will cover:

violence against women: frameworks, framings and methods intimate partner violence; rape and sexual assault harmful traditional practices in a globalised world sexual exploitation; issues and debates

Delivered over five days, the first two days will focus on a critical engagement with theories, definitions and research methods, including a historical overview of feminist theory in relation to violence against women. Subsequent sessions will explore specific forms of violence against women.

These courses are aimed at professionals currently working in the statutory or voluntary sector who wish to:

conduct internal evaluation, monitoring and small scale research projects develop and extend specialist services dealing with child and/or woman abuse undertake policy development at a local, regional or national level where they have responsibility for delivering support and advocacy services, co-ordinating multi-agency for and/or improving the response of the criminal justice and/or health sectors deliver government and or agency policy commitments with respect to Safeguarding Children, addressing domestic violence, rape, FGM, forced marriage, sexual exploitation and other forms of violence against women.

English

09/10/2006 to 10/10/2006

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http://www.londonmet.ac.uk

London Metropolitan University

Ladbroke House, 62-66 Highbury Grove,

London N5 2AD, United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)20 7133 5014;

Fax: +44 (0)20 7133 5026

cwasu@londonmet.ac.uk