Sentence examples for violence communities from inspiring English sources

And by helping raise awareness about violence, communities will be more willing to talk openly and work to end it.

When parts of the country lost electricity during recent violence, communities worked together to keep generators running and send tanks of fuel to remote villages to keep storage facilities cold, thus saving thousands of doses of vaccine.

"For years as a supervisor, I was an outspoken champion of the domestic violence community," Mr. Mirkarimi said.

For many, isolated by low self-esteem, poverty and sometimes violence, community involvement has fostered a sense of worth and greater control.

The cycle of lethal police violence, community outrage, and legal proceedings that yield no consequences came around again last Friday in St .Paul, Minnesota.

While the domestic violence community had been absent from the Crawford case, they were alarmed by the Crawford decision.

The statistics had never been gathered in one place before, so we actually did a service to the domestic violence community by gathering the statistics and publicizing them.

Rosenthal's allies in the domestic violence community hailed the effect she's had on focusing the White House's attention on sexual assault.

Studies reviewed have also found a relationship between various forms of violence, including sexual violence, intimate partner violence, physical violence, community violence, and risky sexual behavior or STIs (8, 9).

In a recent study based on the same national sample of adolescents in RYC, exposure to previous abuse (witnessing violence, victim of family violence, community violence, sexual abuse) was reported to be 71%% [ 52].

In order to reduce sexual violence, community participation is required to reduce the high rates of sexual violence which contribute to HIV transmission (Abrahams & Jewkes, 2005; Taylor, Meyer-Weitz, Jinabhai, & Sathiparsad, 2009).