Managing cases of gender based sexual assault in the Metropole of Tunis, a public health based approach

Publication date: Available online 29 October 2018Source: Aggression and Violent BehaviorAuthor(s): Mehdi Ben Khelil, Amine Zgarni, Meyssa Belghith, Mohamed Allouche, Ahmed Banasr, Mohamed Bellali, Olfa Bekir, Anis Benzarti, Moncef HamdounAbstractGender 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 an inclusive follow up of victims of sexual assaults.The aim of our study was to analyze the pattern victims of sexual assault in the Metropole of Tunis.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 (31) assaults where a judicial procedure started.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 and sexual violence and the evolution of the policies that resulted from these collaborations after the Revolution.

Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior - October 30, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research