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Introduction The World Health Organization (WHO) led the 2018-2020 response to the Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; however, reports emerged in 2020 that WHO [...], Considerable investment has been made in recent years to address sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment by aid workers in the humanitarian sector. However, such sexual misconduct remains a persistent, complex challenge with wide-ranging impacts, including on sexual health, for individuals and communities hosting humanitarian responses. This article considers the state of research regarding sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment in humanitarian contexts, and identifies gaps in the evidence base necessary for reinforcing prevention and response efforts. We first report what we know about sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment, including its impacts on sexual health, risk factors and the permissive enabling organizational cultures. We then identify several critical knowledge gaps that must be addressed for more effective future strategies and approaches to prevent and respond to sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment. We discuss system-wide knowledge gaps, such as lack of evidence on programming approaches and effectiveness of prevention and accountability mechanisms. We explore potential options that health-care programming provides for preventing and responding to sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment. We also describe population-level knowledge gaps, including in patterns of perpetration and specific challenges faced by marginalized groups. We conclude with reflections for a future integrated research and policy agenda. [phrase omitted] [phrase omitted] Des investissements considerables ont ete realises ces dernieres annees pour lutter contre le harcelement, les abus et l'exploitation sexuelle perpetres par des travailleurs du secteur de l'aide humanitaire. Toutefois, une telle inconduite sexuelle demeure un probleme complexe et chronique aux multiples repercussions, notamment sur la sante sexuelle, pour les individus et communautes recevant une assistance humanitaire. Le present article s'interesse a l'etat des recherches relatives au harcelement, aux abus et a l'exploitation sexuelle dans des contextes humanitaires, et identifie les lacunes dans les bases factuelles necessaires pour renforcer les efforts de prevention et d'intervention. Nous commencons par exposer ce que nous savons au sujet de cette problematique, y compris ses repercussions sur la sante sexuelle, les facteurs de risque et les cultures organisationnelles permissives. Ensuite, nous recensons les nombreuses lacunes majeures en termes de connaissances, qu'il faut imperativement combler pour que les futures strategies et approches soient plus efficaces en matiere de prevention et de lutte contre le harcelement, les abus et l'exploitation sexuelle. Nous constatons que ces lacunes sont egalement presentes dans l'ensemble du systeme, se traduisant par exemple par l'absence de donnees factuelles sur la planification des approches et sur l'efficacite des mecanismes de prevention et de responsabilisation. Par ailleurs, nous examinons les differentes options que proposent les programmes de soins de sante pour se premunir contre le harcelement, les abus et l'exploitation sexuelle, mais aussi y remedier. Nous evoquons egalement le manque d'informations au sein de la population, notamment dans les schemas d'execution et les difficultes specifiques rencontrees par les groupes marginalises. Nous concluons par une serie de reflexions sur un futur programme integre melant recherches et decisions politiques. En los ultimos anos, se ha invertido mucho para abordar la explotacion, el abuso y el acoso sexuales por parte de los trabajadores humanitarios del sector. Sin embargo, estas conductas sexuales inapropiadas siguen siendo un problema persistente y complejo, con repercusiones de gran alcance, incluso en la salud sexual, para las personas y las comunidades que acogen las respuestas humanitarias. Este articulo analiza el estado de la investigacion sobre la explotacion, el abuso y el acoso sexuales en los contextos humanitarios, e identifica las deficiencias en la base empirica necesaria para reforzar las iniciativas de prevencion y respuesta. En primer lugar, se informa sobre lo que se conoce acerca de la explotacion, el abuso y el acoso sexuales, incluidas sus repercusiones en la salud sexual, los factores de riesgo y las culturas organizativas permisivas. Luego, se identifican varias deficiencias criticas en el ambito de los conocimientos que deben abordarse para que las estrategias y los enfoques futuros sean mas eficientes en la prevencion y la respuesta a la explotacion, el abuso y el acoso sexuales. Se discuten las deficiencias de conocimiento en todo el sistema, como la falta de evidencia sobre los enfoques de programacion y la eficiencia de los mecanismos de prevencion y rendicion de cuentas. Tambien se exploran las posibles opciones que ofrece el sistema sanitario para prevenir y responder a la explotacion, el abuso y el acoso sexuales. Asimismo, se describen las deficiencias de conocimiento a nivel poblacional, incluidas las pautas de perpetracion y los desafios especificos a los que se enfrentan los grupos marginados. Por ultimo, se presentan algunas reflexiones para una futura agenda integrada de investigacion y politica.

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 541 I. BACKGROUND 544 A. Being Transgender in Prison 544 B. The Prison Rape Elimination Act and Its Failures 546 1. Data Collection 547 2. Development [...]

Author(s): Dannuo Wei [sup.1] , Jinghua Li [sup.1] , Huifang Xu [sup.2] , Lirui Fan [sup.3] , Yaoyao Du [sup.1] , Xiaoting Chen [sup.1] , Fengsu Hou [sup.4] , Jing [...], This study aims to provide an estimate of lifetime sexual violence (SV) among male sexual minority college students with differing sexual orientations and contribute to the evidence base on the association between SV experience, stress, and depressive symptoms. The data stemmed from the 2019 Internet Survey on HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health in Colleges and Universities in Guangdong province, China. Lifetime SV victimisation (including non-sexual harassment, physical contact sexual harassment, and rape), level of stress, and depressive symptoms were examined among 1441 male sexual minority students from 37 colleges and universities in Guangdong province. Linear regression analyses were adopted to examine associations between independent variables and depressive symptoms. 23.4% (337/1441) of the participants reported lifetime non-contact harassment, while 8.8% (127/1441) and 2.4% (35/1441) of the participants reported physical contact sexual harassment and rape, respectively. Homosexual students reported the most physical contact sexual harassment (48/127, 37.8%) and bisexual students reported the most non-contact sexual harassment (102/337, 30.3%) and rape (10/35, 28.6%) among sexual minority participants; 85.6% participants reported high levels of stress. The experience of SV and the level of stress were significantly associated with depressive symptoms, and stress completely mediated the path from SV experiences to depressive symptoms. This study specifically showcases SV as a pervasive problem affecting Chinese male sexual minority college students and highlighting the severity of stress and depressive symptoms among this population. These findings emphasise the urgency of implementing effective practices and policies to address SV and depressive symptoms among male sexual minority college students in China.

Author(s): Andrés Sánchez-Prada [sup.1], Carmen Delgado-Álvarez [sup.1], Esperanza Bosch-Fiol [sup.2], Victoria A. Ferrer-Pérez [sup.2] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.449312.9, 0000 0001 0946 4360, Faculty of Psychology, Pontifical University of Salamanca, , [...], Intimate Partner Violence Against Women (IPVAW) has been defined as a violation of human rights and a serious public health problem rooted in social inequality between women and men. Nevertheless, a significant amount of scientific literature on the topic of IPVAW continues to exclude the gender perspective in both research design and the interpretation of results, despite its conceptual and explanatory relevance. This paper considers certain gender-blind practices in the research on IPVAW. Based on this analysis, we propose explicitly stating the theoretical assumptions inherent in the definition of the construct and clarifying the intended interpretation for measures, so that they can be incorporated into the analysis of validity, and we argue in favor of the need for interdisciplinary studies based on multicausal explanatory models, which incorporate the category gender as a transversal explanatory factor of this type of violence, as well as multi-method approaches, with the aim of overcoming issues of construct underrepresentation and construct-irrelevant variance.

Author(s): Ana M. Sobocan [sup.1], Vesna Leskosek [sup.1], John Devaney [sup.2] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.8954.0, 0000 0001 0721 6013, Faculty of social work, University of Ljubljana, , Ljubljana, Slovenia (2) [...]

More than 100 governments committed to ending violence against children, including nine pledging to ban corporal punishment--affecting an estimated 3 out of every 5 children regularly in their homes. The [...]

Author(s): Suzan Ceylan-Batur [sup.1] , Nuray Sakalli [sup.2] , Stephanie Gunaratne [sup.3] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.412749.d, 0000 0000 9058 8063, Department of Psychology, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, , [...], The present study examined the role of justification for violence (honor-based vs. non-honor-based conflict), honor concerns (feminine, masculine, family, moral integrity), and fundamentalist religious orientation in predicting tolerance to violence against women (VAW) in an honor culture, Turkey. Six hundred and one Turkish university students (437 female, 164 male; M age = 21.16) participated in the study. Results revealed that (1) participants in the honor-based conflict condition scored higher in tolerance to VAW than participants in the non-honor-based condition, and (2) masculine honor positively, integrity honor negatively mediated the relationship between fundamentalist religious orientation and tolerance to VAW, however it was not moderated by justification for violence. The findings contribute to a limited body of literature that links fundamentalist religious orientation to tolerance to VAW and sheds light on the mediator role of honor concerns.