Violence against women: Initiatives in the 1990s

Sumati Nair looks at how the decade of the 1990s saw the women’s movement making enormous inroads into the struggle against violence against women (VAW). At different levels women have posed challenges-to make visible the issues of violence and abuse of women and to make public what had been held as a private matter. Using the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights Newsletter as a source, she shares some of the innovative ideas for analysis or actions undertaken to fight VAW. © 2001 The Society for International Development.