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  title info:
    title: Sexual violence among girls in 10 districts of Nepal
  name:
    name part: Upreti, Aruna
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Himal Innovative Development and Research Pvt. Ltd. (HIDR)
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    place:
      place term: Kathmandu, Nepal
    publisher: Himal Innovative Development and Research Pvt. Ltd. (HIDR)
    date issued: c2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 87p.
  abstract: Over the past four decades, violence against women and girls has been recognised as a serious violation of human rights and as an important concern for social policy making. This study report explains the situation of sexual violence among girls in Nepal, especially in the 10 districts: Banke, Jumla, Makawanpur, Rautahat, Kapilbastu, Kailali, Achham, Dhankuta, Myagdi and Sunsari. Nepal is a country with the population of 28 million and child population shares 42 percent (CBS 2011). This study report provides an analysis of the estimation of scale of sexual violence, causes and effect on the victims and family, efforts made to identify vulnerable groups, challenges and realities of access to justice and perspectives for future intervention and collaboration on addressing sexual violence against girls in the study area. This study has highlighted the challenges of child survivors of sexual violence and reviewed the related laws, policies and their implementation and gaps, status of access to justice situation and has provided recommendations accordingly. The study was an explorative research that explains an existing phenomenon of sexual violence and access to justice among girls, vulnerable groups, offenders, rationale behind and possible interventions for promoting safer environment for girls. In general, the entire study was vested upon the focused group discussions, district consultation and an interview with key informants of the respective places. The study had sessions with 190 participants in focused group discussion from all the ten study districts, likewise, 144 participants' during district consultation and 43 in key informant interview. The findings of the study are extracted as listed below: Understanding of sexual violence: The main finding is that the definition of sexual violence varies amongst the civil society actors, key informants and girls and boys. Key informants' understanding is highly confined within the domain of existing domestic legal defin…
  note: Research Report:
  subject:
    topic: Sexual violence
  subject:
    topic: Domestic violence
  subject:
    topic: Nepal
  classification: WA 308
  identifier: http://nhrc.org.np/contact
  record info:
    record creation date: 160208
    record change date: 20220906184650.0