Subject(s): Violence against -- Women in Crimes against -- Freedom for Violence -- Huamn Rights -- Exploring violence against women - Explaining violence against women as a development concern : Causes and perpetrators, poverty and violence against women, some useful concepts from gender and development, supporting women's empowerment and avoiding violent backlash -- Human rights and development responses to violence against women : Human rights approaches to violence against women, integrated response- human rights and development -- Prevalence, forms and impacts of violence against women : Problems in estimating prevalence of violence against women, form of violence against women, impact of violence upon women -- Contexts in which violence against women occurs : Violence and social institutions, violence against women in times of change and crisis -- Strategies for challenging violence against women -- Direct support to survivors of violence : Options available to women, creating a safe space, supporting women's access to law and justice, supporting women to overcome the mental and physical impacts of violence, long term strategies- creating a livelihood, right to individual petition under the women's convention, planning support interventions for women survivors of violence -- Challenges to violent men : Why work with male perpetrators, direct challenges to violent men, ending violence through fostering women's empowerment -- Challenging attitudes and beliefs : Raising awareness and ending stigma, challenging attitudes by recording violence against women, challenging attitudes by harnessing media, challenging attitudes through public education and information campaigns, groups work to build critical consciousness of violence against women -- Challenging the state : Strengthening legal responses to violence against women, building the capacity of state workers to challenge violence, achieving attitudinal change at level of state, stregthening state provision of health and welfare, lobbying for state provision of shelters, transforming state instigated research, training of state officials, state involvement in education campaigns, NGO lobbying of governments to effect change -- Planning for freedom from violence : Rights- based approach to development, strategies for tackling violence against women, identifying trends, policy implications for international NGOs -- women & law