Introduction 1: Tackling violence against women: a worldwide approach Ceri Hayes 2: Gender-based violence and property grabbing in Africa: a denial of women's liberty and security Kaori Izumi 3: No more killings! Women respond to femicides in Central America Marina Prieto-Carron, Marilyn Thomson, and Mandy Macdonald 4: Sexual violence during firewood collection: income-generation as protection in displaced settings Sarah K. Chynoweth with Erin M. Patrick 5: Negotiating violence and non-violence in Cambodian marriages Rebecca Surtees 6: Social policy from the bottom up: abandoning FGC in sub-Saharan Africa Peter Easton, Karen Monkman, and Rebecca Miles 7: Constructing an alternative masculine identity: the experience of the Centro Bartolome de las Casas and Oxfam America in El Salvador Susan Bird, Rutilio Delgado, Larry Madrigal, John Bayron Ochoa, and Walberto Tejeda 8: "We Can": transforming power in relationships in South Asia Mona Mehta and Chitra Gopalakrishnan 9: Gender violence in schools: taking "the girls-as-victims" discourse forward Fiona Leach and Sara Humphreys 10: Gender-based violence in and around schools in conflict and humanitarian contexts Jackie Kirk 11: Reducing poverty and upholding human rights: a pragmatic approach Meena Poudel and Ines Smyth 12: A tale of two cities: shifting the paradigm of anti-trafficking programmes Smarajit Jana, Nandinee Bandyopadhyay, Mrinal Kanti Dutta, and Amitrajit Saha Conclusion Resources