Citation

Ben Khelil M, Zgarni A, Belghith M, Allouche M, Banasr A, Bellali M, Bekir O, Benzarti A, Hamdoun M. Aggress. Violent Behav. 2019; 47: 257-261.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.avb.2018.10.005

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Gender based-violence and sexual violence represented a stigmatized problem in the Arab World due to religious and social reasons. In Tunisia, before the 2011 Revolution, few data were available about this subject. Since the 2016, a new Emergency Forensic Unit was settled to offer a comprehensive medical care and follow up of victims of sexual assaults. The aims of our study were to identify the pattern of female victims of sexual assaults and to provide recommendations of a public health-based prevention strategy offering an interdisciplinary approach. It was a retrospective review of casualties of all victims of sexual assaults examined in the Emergency Forensic Unit of Tunis. Our Unit receives almost all the cases of sexual assaults where a judicial procedure was initiated. We focused in this study in the collaborations between Public Health instances, civil society and policy makers in the management and prevention of gender-based sexual violence and the evolution of the policies that resulted from these collaborations after the Tunisian Revolution.

Language: en

Keywords

Gender-based violence; Prevention; Public Health; Revolution; Sexual violence; Tunisia