Women, business and the law examines where economies provide legal protection for women and girls in areas such as child marriage, domestic violence, and marital rape. It also collects data on remedies, such as the existence and scope of protection orders for victims of domestic violence. Violence thwarts women’s economic empowerment by limiting their ability to exercise agency and make choices. Violence against women and girls both reflects and reinforces...
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DETAILS
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2015/04/01
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Working Paper
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117707
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2017/07/27
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Disclosed
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Closing the gap : improving laws protecting women from violence
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law
Citation
Sakhonchik,Alena; Recavarren, Isabel Santagostino; Tavares,Paula Magarinos Torres.
Closing the gap : improving laws protecting women from violence (Portuguese). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/461381501135446796