Associations between women's perceptions of gender relations and self-esteem and self-efficacy in a former conflict zone: baseline findings in South Kivu, DR Congo

• Main Authors: Clea Sarnquist (Author), Rasika Behl (Author), Aisha Talib (Author), Jonathan Altamirano (Author), Barbara Jerome (Author), Joseph Inungu (Author), Yvonne Maldonado (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Eastern DR Congo is recovering from decades of armed conflict in which violence against women (VAW) was widely used as a weapon of war. Even now, rates remain high: 34·5% and 47·5% of women in South Kivu report ever experiencing sexual or physical violence, respectively. However, there a...