Adolescent Girls Offered Alternatives to Commercial Sexual Exploitation: A Case Study from the Philipines

Bagley, Christopher; Madrid, Susan; Simkhada, Padam; King, Kathleen; Young, Loretta

doi:10.23860/dignity.2017.02.01.08

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“…It remains so (Lancet 2017). Novel approaches such as those we propose in rural Bangladesh, and in its city slums may be unconventional; they may not work, but they are worth trying-as for example a novel program of income support for rehabilitation of high school girls pulled into commercial sexual exploitation was successful in another developing country (Bagley et al 2017b).…”

Section: Suicide Prevention In Bangladesh: National Initiativesmentioning

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“…In elaborating this approach, we have proposed a demonstration project in a rural area of Bangladesh, which will be contrasted with a "control" district of similar demographic and socioeconomic status (Shahnaz et al 2017). Combining this with an approach used in The Philippines (Bagley et al 2017b) of giving financial support for secondary school students to a parent (conditional upon the student continuing to attend secondary education) would mean that the pressures for adolescents to forgo education because their employment or marriage was necessary to support an impoverished family would no longer prevail. We argue that the students in the focus secondary institutions should receive an adequate education in Muslim citizenship, the universal values of Islam in which students absorb the high ideals of daily living of respect and equality between genders prescribed by the Qur'an and the Sunnah.…”

Section: Development Of a Public Health Prevention Modelmentioning

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High Rates of Suicide and Violence in the Lives of Girls and Young Women in Bangladesh: Issues for Feminist Intervention

2017

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Deaths by suicide in Bangladesh have an atypical sex ratio, with higher rates in females than in males-a characteristic shared with several countries in Southern Asia. Reasons for this are explored in this paper. An examination of the social structure of Bangladesh suggests that girls and women are subjected to higher rates of sexual and physical violence compared with males, especially in rural and urban slum areas. This violence is often linked to the enforced marriage of young girls to older men. A systematic review of 24 studies on suicide and suicidal behaviors in Bangladesh has shown that suicide death rates are exceptionally high in younger women, at a rate of about 20 per 100,000, more than twice the rate in males aged less than 49. In girls aged 15 to 17, the estimated suicide rate is 14 per 100,000, 50% higher than in males. Because of problems in obtaining systematic data on deaths by suicide, these rates are likely to be underestimates. Extreme poverty and lack of education have been recorded as factors in deaths by suicide, although there are methodological problems in reaching such conclusions. We speculate that some of the "suicides" (especially those using poison) may in fact be cases of murder. A dowry system (not sanctioned by Islam) is thought to be a major cause of family poverty, and violence experienced by young girls. In proposing solutions, we argue the case (as Muslims) for the support of an Islamic feminism which urges better support for girls growing up in extreme poverty.

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High Rates of Suicide and Violence in the Lives of Girls and Young Women in Bangladesh: Issues for Feminist Intervention

2017

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“…A modified approach which we used in The Philippines [67], giving financial support for secondary school students to a parent (conditional upon the student continuing to attend secondary education) would however mean that the pressures for adolescents to forgo education because their employment or marriage was necessary to support an impoverished family, would no longer prevail.…”

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Suicidal Behaviour in Bangladesh: A Scoping Literature Review and a Proposed Public Health Prevention Model

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Simkhada³

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The objectives of this review are to explore through a scoping analysis of published literature, the prevalence of suicidal ideation, attempts and suicide, and the correlates and presumed causes of such behaviours in Bangladesh, in order to develop a model of public health research and prevention. This type of review aims to contextualise existing knowledge, set it within a practice and policy context, and make recommendations for health care service delivery and evaluation. The evidence indicates an unusual pattern of completed suicide rates, those most at risk being younger women. The rate in adolescent girls is exceptionally high by international standards, and appears to reflect poverty, the low status of women, violence directed against girls and women, and forced marriages of young, teenage girls.

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Adolescent Girls Offered Alternatives to Commercial Sexual Exploitation: A Case Study from the Philipines

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High Rates of Suicide and Violence in the Lives of Girls and Young Women in Bangladesh: Issues for Feminist Intervention

High Rates of Suicide and Violence in the Lives of Girls and Young Women in Bangladesh: Issues for Feminist Intervention

Suicidal Behaviour in Bangladesh: A Scoping Literature Review and a Proposed Public Health Prevention Model

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