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Journal articles on the topic "Victims/Survivors"

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Alachkar, Mustafa. "Victims or survivors?" Avicenna Journal of Medicine 6, no. 3 (2016): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2231-0770.184070.

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Cantor, Chris. "Victims and Survivors." Crisis 24, no. 1 (January 2003): 37–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027//0227-5910.24.1.37.

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Taylor, P. J. "Victims and survivors." Current Opinion in Psychiatry 1, no. 6 (November 1988): 673–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00001504-198811000-00003.

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Sparr, L. F. "Victims and survivors." Current Opinion in Psychiatry 2, no. 6 (December 1989): 757–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00001504-198912000-00009.

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McFarlane, Alexander C. "Victims and survivors." Current Opinion in Psychiatry 4, no. 6 (December 1991): 833–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00001504-199112000-00002.

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Adshead, Gwen. "Victims and survivors." Current Opinion in Psychiatry 6, no. 6 (December 1993): 758–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00001504-199312000-00003.

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Mezey, Gillian C. "Victims and survivors." Current Opinion in Psychiatry 7, no. 6 (November 1994): 456–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00001504-199411000-00006.

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Mezey, Gillian C. "Victims and survivors." Current Opinion in Pediatrics 3, no. 6 (December 1990): 739–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00008480-199012000-00003.

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Mezey, Gillian C. "Victims and survivors." Current Opinion in Psychiatry 3, no. 6 (1990): 739–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00001504-199012000-00003.

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Ulcena, Tracey. "Survivors, Not Victims." Practicing Anthropology 35, no. 3 (July 1, 2013): 17–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.35.3.a148058830xnx8r2.

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What some people believe about Haiti and the devastating effects of the 2010 earthquake revolves around the coverage in the media. While the media hinted at what was going on after the January 12th earthquake, it was not a completely accurate portrayal of the complex issues that existed in the various tent cities of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Almost two years later in 2011, almost 500,000 people were still living in unacceptable conditions in scattered parts of the capital. The things that I witnessed firsthand in Port-au-Prince over the summer of 2011 as an undergraduate student conducting ethnographic research speak to the impact that the earthquake has had beyond the physical damage, particularly in terms of social conditions. What I came away with from my research was that making change is not a question of economics but of humanity.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Victims/Survivors"

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Swanson, Shelby N. "WOMEN AS VICTIMS OR SURVIVORS." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/122.

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Research shows that women who have been sexually assaulted once are more likely to be sexually assaulted again (revictimized). Several factors contribute to the likelihood of a woman being revictimized, including social support, personal behavior, and psychological health. This research proposes that a combination of these factors contributes to a woman’s self-perception as a victim or survivor of sexual assault. It is this self-perception that determines revictimization. Twenty women were interviewed to explore the victim or survivor mentality and its relation to revictimization. All women had negative consequences of the assault. Negative consequences lead some women to develop a victim mentality. Some women were able to find positive consequences out of their assault and developed a survivor mentality. Revictimization was linked to negative consequences of the initial victimization and the victim mentality that resulted from the negative consequences. Reasons for non-revictimization were somewhat the opposite of the reasons for revictimization and were linked to positive consequences of the assault and the survivor mentality that resulted from the positive consequences. The overall attitudes and behaviors of a sexual assault victim determines whether she views herself as a victim or survivor which significantly impacts the likelihood of her revictimization.
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Kenney, James Scott. "Coping with grief, survivors of murder victims." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0028/NQ50994.pdf.

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Kenney, James Scott. "Coping with grief : survivors of murder victims /." *McMaster only, 1998.

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Jobe, Alison. "Accessing services : trafficking victims'/survivors' experiences in the UK." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/118.

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This thesis explores the processes through which sexual trafficking is currently emerging as an identified, spoken about and acted upon social problem, and finds that a dominant story on sexual trafficking appears to be emerging in the UK. The thesis argues that this dominant story frequently fails to reflect the continuum of experience(s) lived, and thereafter recounted, by those women it concerns. As a result, policies and services are developed which are incapable of reflecting or meeting the needs of trafficked women’s multifarious experience(s). In this respect, the thesis explores the social consequences related to the telling of stories, as well as the social and cultural processes within which stories are and/or may be told (Plummer 1995). Through focusing upon trafficking victims’/survivors’ ability to seek and/or receive help and assistance in the UK context, the thesis finds that the dominance of one public narrative or story on sexual trafficking is problematic for trafficked women when accessing help and assistance, especially if their stories fail to “fit”. On the other hand, at other times, where women’s stories do “fit”, help and services have been accessed through the telling of the dominant sexual trafficking story. The thesis explores how these discourses interact and change over time where trafficked women encounter UK police officers and immigration officials, and when trafficked women apply for asylum to remain in the UK. Parallels have been drawn throughout the thesis with similar, and related, situations documented by feminist researchers where representations of prostitution, rape and/or intimate partner violence within legal or social frameworks are not reflective of the complexity of those realities (Hamner 1989; Kelly & Radford 1996; Lees 1996a 1996b; Self 2003; Stanko 2007).
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Sharma, Pooja. "Reintegration of victims and survivors of trafficking in Nepal." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/10977.

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This study attempted to examine complications related to the reintegration process of victims and survivors of trafficking in Nepal. In order to do so, three main goals were set. First, to understand the situation of trafficking survivors and the way they are treated by the society; second, to explore the provision of anti-trafficking laws in favor of the victims and survivors; and third, to analyze the disparity between what the laws professes and what happens in reality. The resources used for the study consists of in-depth interviews with six victims and survivors of trafficking and five key persons representing four different NGOs working against trafficking of women and girls, HIV/AIDS and other related issues. This study also includes national and I/NGO annual reports, journal articles and books as supporting resources. This study demonstrates that there are many challenges that victims and survivors of trafficking in Nepal experience during reintegration. Social stigmas, discrimination, negative attitude of families and communities, mental, verbal, physical and emotional abuse are some of the major challenges. There are several laws and policies available to protect the trafficked victims and survivors. However, lack of knowledge and trust toward law enforcement system among the general population has caused ignorance and hence, increased the number of trafficking victims in Nepal. This study also found that contributions made by NGOs toward the reintegration of victims and survivors of trafficking are commendable. The NGOs has improved their lives by providing skills, opportunities and motivation to live independently in the society. At the end, this study suggests that community should work together toward educating people about trafficking, advocating to raise voices against trafficking, forming strong surveillance system, and combating corruption in order to combat trafficking.
Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Liberal Studies
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Guadalupe, Diaz Xavier. "Victims Outside the Binary: Transgender Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5638.

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While research on intimate partner violence (IPV) has begun to include gay and lesbian relationships, these studies have almost entirely focused on cisgender relationships or victims. To date, little to no research exists on IPV in the transgender community. The current study explored accounts and meanings of IPV victimization as told by 18 transgender-identified survivors. Thirteen in-depth interviews and five open-ended questionnaires were analyzed from a modified grounded theory method through open and focused coding that revealed three broad and salient themes. First, the accounts of violence illustrated the role of transphobic and genderist attacks in the dynamics of abuse. Central to the power dynamics in these abusive relationships was the use of these attacks against trans identities. Second, participants constructed meanings behind their IPV victimization; specifically, they addressed why they felt this happened to them and what motivated abusers. Participants emphasized the meaning behind much of what they experienced as the abuser controlling transition. The survivors described their abusers as wanting to regulate their transition processes and maintain control over their lives. In their discussions, participants attempted to make sense of their experiences and explain why this could've happened. Participants felt that they were susceptible to abuse and in a period in their life in which they felt unwanted due to their trans status. This trans vulnerability is how most of the participants explained why they felt they were victimized by their partners. Finally, as all of the participants in the study had left their abusive relationships, their narratives revealed their processing of a victim identity. In these discussions, participants utilized a gendered discourse or a “walking of the gender tightrope” as they distanced themselves from a “typical” feminine and passive victim. Further, participants described navigating genderist resources as they sought help for their experiences. This study offers ground-breaking insight into how IPV affects transgender communities and illuminates the distinct realities faced by these survivors.
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Asmal, Kader. "Victims, survivors and citizens: human rights, reparations and reconciliation: inaugural lecture." University of the Western Cape Printing Department, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69386.

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The professorial inaugural lecture is for the university an occasion to celebrate - celebrate in the full meaning of the word, i.e. to perform publicly and duly, to observe and honour with rites and festivities, to publish abroad, praise and extol. Through the custom of the inaugural lecture the university celebrates and affirms its basic function, that of creating, preserving, transmitting and applying knowledge, particularly scientifically-based knowledge. The university appoints to the position of professor one who has attained excellence in the handling of knowledge in her or his discipline, and through a jealous watchfulness over the dignity and esteem of this time-honoured position of excellence amongst scholars, defends the capacity of the university to advance human knowledge and human progress. The University of the Western Cape is particularly honoured to celebrate by way of this address the inauguration of its first ever Professor of Human Rights Law. We take pride from both the position and the incumbent: the post demonstrates our commitment to scholarly relevance, the incumbent to the pursuit of excellence. This university has distinguished itself amongst South African educational institutions for the way that it has grappled with questions of appropriate intellectual and educational responses to the demands of the social and political environment. That search involved debates and contests over what constitutes knowledge or valuable knowledge, over the nature of the process of knowledge production, over the relationship between theory and practice, about autonomy and accountability, about the meaning of "community" and about how the activities of a university are informed by the definition and conception of "community". The decision to establish a chair in Human Rights Law was arrived at as part of that process of searching for the appropriate forms of curricular transformation. South African society with its history of colonial conquest and latterly apartheid rule is one bereft of a rights culture; and where the discussion of a bill of rights and the general establishment of an awareness of human rights had been started in recent times, it has often been motivated by a concern with the protection of traditionally advantaged sectors of society. A university like ours has an obligation to contribute to the debate about and the promotion of human rights in ways which will also be concerned with healing, reparation and reconstruction in this severely brutalised nation. In this address marking his formal assumption of the University of the Western Cape’s Chair in Human Rights Law, Kader Asmal gives testimony of the depth of scholarly rigour and the breadth of humane concern brought to and emanating from this position. The integral coming together of Asmal the international scholar, the anti-apartheid activist of long standing, the seasoned international solidarity worker, the spirited publicist is evidenced in this address which is sure to stand as a signal point of reference in our national debate about this complex subject. The University had been privileged to attract to its staff some of the finest scholars from the ranks of the formerly exiled South Africans; this inaugural ceremony provides the institution with the opportunity to welcome into its midst one of those in the person of Kader Asmal.
Publications of the University of the Western Cape ; series A, no. 64
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McLachlan, Katherine Jane, and katherine mclachlan@flinders edu au. "Grounds for Hope and Disappointment: Victims’/Survivors’ Perceptions of South Australia Police Responses to Rape." Flinders University. School of Law, 2007. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070824.131843.

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Internationally, there have been few studies examining the attitudes of people who have been raped towards police (Jordan, 2001a; Lievore, 2005; Temkin, 1997, 1999). Little research in Australia (particularly South Australia) has examined the experiences of victims/survivors of rape with police. Existing data do show that women who have been raped rarely report assaults to police. This has been attributed by researchers to a range of reasons, both personal and systemic, including the influence of stereotypes and myths about rape on victims’/survivors’ decision-making. Rape myths often reflect community attitudes, social norms and police responses. For example, victims/survivors may blame themselves and also expect police will blame or disbelieve them. Such expectations (or subsequent experiences) of negative police responses undermine victims’/survivors’ faith in police. However, this is not the whole story. In reality, police responses to rape are complex and inconsistent, influenced by both individual and organisational factors. I initiated this study to explore victims’/survivors’ expectations of, and experiences with, police in a transparent and accessible forum. Based on semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 11 women who had been raped in South Australia, my findings illustrated the diversity of South Australia Police responses to victims/survivors of rape and suggested that South Australia Police practices were similar to those of other Australian and English-speaking jurisdictions. Overall, interactions with South Australia Police ‘simultaneously provide grounds for hope and are disappointing (Lievore, 2005: 59; emphasis added). In many cases police responses were disappointing, through service provision that was partly or wholly negative. Specific individual and organisational factors were associated with satisfactory or unsatisfactory police practices. Poor service provision was evident in individual police officers’ apathy and dismissive or disbelieving responses, and through low prioritisation and limited resourcing of sexual violence at an organisation level. However, my findings indicated that there was also much to be hopeful about when considering South Australia Police responses to rape. The participants in my study often reported exemplary service from individual officers. At the reporting and investigation stages, good practices were based on ‘procedural justice’ rather than ‘outcome justice’: characterised by strong communication, empathy and professionalism at an individual level and consistency at an organisational level.
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Egger, Adrian. "Human Sex Trafficking| How Sex Trafficking Victims and Survivors Experience Hope and Resilience." Thesis, George Fox University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10629214.

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Few studies have examined the experiences of sexually trafficked victims and survivors in the United States.

As the population increases it is important to understand how sexually trafficked victims and survivors cope with trauma, experience recovery, and respond to therapy. Research indicates that factors of hope and resilience play a vital role in the way individuals cope with trauma and experience recovery (Masten & Narayan, 2012).

This study examined factors of hope and resilience of 12 sexually trafficked victims and survivors, ages 14 to 21. Interviews were conducted and a mixed-methods design was employed to establish common themes related to how sex trafficking victims comprehend and experience hope and resilience within their lives.

Significant quantitative and qualitative results were found in this study. Six significant qualitative themes were derived from the interviews describing various ways that participants experienced hope and resilience. The themes included (a) Need for positive attachment (b) Positive Self-Portrayal (c) Introspection (d) Adaptability (e) Need for money, and (f) Desire for change.

Additionally, participants also completed the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, the Children’s Hope Scale or Adult Hope Scale, and the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25. Quantitative results indicate a strong positive correlation between depression and anxiety (r = .52, p < .01), a strong positive correlation between hope and resilience (r = .70, p < .04), and a strong negative correlation between resilience and anxiety (r = -.63, p < .03).

The implications of this study may be used to direct clinical focus when working with victims and survivors, placing emphasis on the importance of developing hope and resilience throughout the rehabilitation process.

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Trubits, Ryan J. "The Needs and Resources of International Torture Survivors Living in the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) Metroplex: an Investigation of Healing and Assimilation Perceived by Center for Survivors of Torture’s Clients and Staff As Well As the Greater Resettlement Community." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc804872/.

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Torture survivors find difficulty navigating through an unfamiliar healthcare and social service system. Many survivors who already face Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and depression also endure a secondary threat which leads to re-traumatization through the struggles of acculturation. The aim of this study is to determine: 1. Identify differences and assumptions between service providers’ and clients’ definitions of self-sufficiency; 2. Examine prominent barriers to self-sufficiency that survivors encounter; 3. Pinpoint the survival strategies that survivors use in order to cope with life in DFW; 4. Determine what resources CST staff, area service providers, and survivors feel need to be improved for CST and the DFW metroplex.
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Books on the topic "Victims/Survivors"

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Samsidar. As victims, also survivors. Jakarta: Komnas Perempuan, 2006.

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Geller, Gloria Rhea. Justice for women victims and survivors of abuse. Regina: Social Administration Research Unit, Faculty of Social Work, University of Regina, 1991.

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Tidal wave: A list of victims and survivors. St. John's, Newfoundland: Flanker Press, 2000.

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Ellis, Brendan. The work of Brendan Ellis: Victims and survivors. [Belfast: Art & Research Exchange, 1985.

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Aliogo, Jonathan E. Nigeria Biafra War: Victims, survivors and Aburi Accord. Enugu, Nigeria: De Joe Publication & Communication Ltd., 2009.

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Echo, survivors voice: A compendium of case studies of survivors and victims' in migration process. Dhaka: Shikkha Shastha Unnayan Karzakram, 2012.

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The victims return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin. Exeter, NH: PublishingWorks, 2010.

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Ladrido-Ignacio, Lourdes. From victims to survivors: Psychosocial intervention in disaster management. [Manila]: UP Information, Publication and Public Affairs Office, 1994.

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The victims return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin. London: I.B. Taurus, 2012.

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Victims and survivors: Displaced persons and other war victims in Viet-Nam, 1954-1975. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

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Book chapters on the topic "Victims/Survivors"

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Maloy, Kate, and Maggie Jones Patterson. "Victims and Survivors." In Birth or Abortion?, 217–56. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6142-6_7.

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Chant, Sylvia. "Victims or Survivors?" In Women-Headed Households, 194–225. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230378049_7.

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Cohen, Stephen F. "The Victims Return: Gulag Survivors under Khrushchev." In Political Violence, 49–68. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230616240_4.

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Llorens, Manuel. "Psychotherapy with Victims and Survivors of Violence." In Latin American Voices, 83–99. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57792-6_5.

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Taylor, Nik, and Heather Fraser. "Supporting Victims/Survivors: Escape, Refuge, and Recovery." In Companion Animals and Domestic Violence, 153–84. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04125-0_6.

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Ibreck, Rachel. "Victims and Survivors from Cyangugu, Rwanda: The Politics of Testimony After Genocide." In The Politics of Victimhood in Post-conflict Societies, 301–25. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70202-5_12.

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Pakszys, Elżbieta. "The Victims and the Survivors: The Lvov-Warsaw School and the Holocaust." In Interdisciplinary Investigations into the Lvov-Warsaw School, 35–46. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24486-6_3.

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Ward, Stephen, and Ian Locke. "‘Ex-Enemy Jews’: the Fate of the Assets of Holocaust Victims and Survivors in Britain." In The Plunder of Jewish Property during the Holocaust, 209–26. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780333985281_12.

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Samaraweera, H. Unnathi S. "Flood ‘Survivors’ or Flood ‘Dependents’? A Sociological Reading of Flood ‘Victims’ in Urban Sri Lanka." In Multi-Hazard Early Warning and Disaster Risks, 223–33. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73003-1_14.

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Noyori-Corbett, Chie, and Jessica L. Hernandez. "Organizational Configurations in the Provision of Social Services and Advocacy to Victims and Survivors of Human Trafficking." In The SAGE Handbook of Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery, 495–516. 1 Oliver's Yard, 55 City Road London EC1Y 1SP: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526436146.n27.

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Conference papers on the topic "Victims/Survivors"

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Kundu, Tushar, Steve C. Wang, Jonathan L. Payne, and Seth Finnegan. "ARE DEAD CLADE WALKING VICTIMS OR SURVIVORS?" In GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA - 2016. Geological Society of America, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2016am-286610.

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Burleson, Grace, Brian Butcher, Brianna Goodwin, and Kendra Sharp. "Assisting Economic Opportunity for Women Through Appropriate Engineering Design of a Soap-Making Process in Uganda." In ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2016-59715.

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TERREWODE, a non-governmental organization in Uganda, works to eradicate obstetric fistula in local communities and provide income-generating skills training to the affected women. Obstetric fistula is a traumatic childbirth injury caused by prolonged, obstructed labor and delayed intervention. The condition is preventable with proper medical attention, however, in rural areas women who suffer from the condition are typically disowned from their families and communities [1]. As part of their social reintegration program, TERREWODE provides training for women post-treatment in multiple income-generating skill areas; jewelry making, baking, cooking, sewing, and buying/selling produce. The soap-making idea originated within TERREWODE itself and is intended to create an income stream for the women participating. The scope of this senior capstone project, in collaboration with several organizations, is to increase efficiency, reliability, and repeatability of the soap-making process and explore potential avenues for powering the system in an off-grid setting. A weighted-design matrix was used to make engineering decisions throughout the project. The two primary engineering aspects of this project were the selection of soap-making process (hot vs. cold) and the selection of a mixing device and powering unit. Understanding of appropriate manufacturing technologies in Uganda was necessary as all materials and tools needed to be locally available for success for the project. The hot process requires maintaining the soap mixture at a constant temperature for roughly two hours or until the gel phase occurs. This process allows for a short curing time, permitting the soap to be ready for use sooner. Opposing this, the cold process requires little cook time but a lengthy curing time. Experimental data showed that maintaining a consistent temperature over an extended period of time while using a cookstove is nearly impossible, even in a controlled lab environment. The cold process was selected as a better suited solution for manufacturing due to field conditions and available resources. A mixing device is crucial to the soap-making process. Due to the unreliability of grid-based electricity in the region, the team considered both a human-powered mixing solution and a solar-powered mixing solution [2]. TERREWODE leadership steered the team away from creating a human powered bike mixer for fear of discouraging women to participate, due to potential health and comfort issues. The team selected a solar powered system and has tested a U.S. manufactured prototype. The ultimate goal of this soap-making project is to provide an opportunity for victims and survivors of obstetric fistula to earn a livelihood. The work done by the Oregon State (OSU) mechanical engineering design team, in conjunction with the OSU Anthropology department, University of Oregon College of Business, several private artists and entrepreneurs, and TERREWODE, will provide potential improvements to the process and implementation plan to more effectively and economically create soap.
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