Venkam

I am a second-semester senior at Rice University studying Chemical Engineering and Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities. I am interested in social impact work - specifically gender inequality in higher education. Next year, I will be moving to Boston in order to work at a firm doing social impact consulting.

Spring 2017

Proposal

I plan to rename the article to "Gender-Based Violence in Peru" and focus on how this can manifest itself in different ways and through different mediums. Additionally, I plan to include prevention mechanisms that are being employed. My full proposal can be found here.

Topic

Domestic Violence in Peru

I am also interested in editing the ‘Domestic Violence in Peru’ article. Currently, it focuses very briefly on the policy aspects of domestic violence, ignoring non-profit’s initiatives or academic studies that have been done on the topic.

The article is currently rated as Start-class, which means it can use a lot of improvement. Redoing the structure of the article to reflect the complex history that Peru has had with domestic and sexual violence (especially in indigenous populations) is incredibly important to make the article as substantive as possible.

Ultimately, this article needs to recognize that there are different forms of gender-based violence. Therefore, I may even change the title of it, and include subsections that expand on different forms of gender-based violence.

Sources:

Boesten, Jelke. "Analyzing rape regimes at the interface of war and peace in Peru." International Journal of Transitional Justice 4, no. 1 (2010): 110-129.

Caceres, Carlos F., Barbara Vanoss Marin, and Esther Sid Hudes. "Sexual coercion among youth and young adults in Lima, Peru." Journal of adolescent health 27, no. 5 (2000): 361-367.

Cripe, Swee May, Sixto E. Sanchez, Maria Teresa Perales, Nally Lam, Pedro Garcia, and Michelle A. Williams. "Association of intimate partner physical and sexual violence with unintended pregnancy among pregnant women in Peru." International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 100, no. 2 (2008): 104-108.

Cripe, Swee May, Sixto E. Sanchez, Elena Sanchez, Beatriz Ayala Quintanilla, Christian Hernández Alarcon, Bizu Gelaye, and Michelle A. Williams. "Intimate partner violence during pregnancy: a pilot intervention program in Lima, Peru." Journal of interpersonal violence 25, no. 11 (2010): 2054-2076.

de Olarte, E. Gonzales, and P. Gavillano Llosa. "Does Poverty Cause Domestic Violence: Some Answers from Lima." Too Close to Home: Violence in the Americas. Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank (1999): 35-50.

Duggan, Colleen, and Julie Guillerot. "Reparations for sexual and reproductive violence: Prospects for achieving gender justice in Guatemala and Peru." International Journal of Transitional Justice 2, no. 2 (2008): 192-213.

Falcón, Julissa Mantilla. "The Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s treatment of sexual violence against women." Human Rights Brief 12, no. 2 (2005): 1.

Flake, Dallan F. "Individual, family, and community risk markers for domestic violence in Peru." Violence against women 11, no. 3 (2005): 353-373.

Leiby, Michele L. "Wartime sexual violence in Guatemala and Peru." International Studies Quarterly 53, no. 2 (2009): 445-468.

Perales, Maria Teresa, Swee May Cripe, Nelly Lam, Sixto E. Sanchez, Elena Sanchez, and Michelle Anne Williams. "Prevalence, types, and pattern of intimate partner violence among pregnant women in Lima, Peru." Violence against women 15, no. 2 (2009): 224-250.

Fall 2016

Proposal

I plan to update the "Sex Education in India" article with the changes outlined here. In summary, my plan is to split this article into three sections: Sex Education for Adolescents, Family Planning for Adults, and HIV/AIDS Prevention Education. Additionally, I plan to compare and contrast the efficacy of these types of education, while also exploring any cultural opposition.

Topic

Sex Education in India

The second topic that I am interested in editing is Sex Education in India. I would be adding to the current Wikipedia page that has no rating. The current Wikipedia page only cursorily covers the nature of sex education in India and doesn’t cover the efforts being undertaken by non-profits to educate the community about things like HIV. Additionally, it doesn’t cover the implications or effects of sex education in India and how those manifest themselves differently depending on the caste system.

Sources

McManus, Alexandra, and Lipi Dhar. "Study of knowledge, perception and attitude of adolescent girls towards STIs/HIV, safer sex and sex education:(a cross sectional survey of urban adolescent school girls in South Delhi, India)." BMC women's health 8, no. 1 (2008): 1.

Bhende, Asha A. "Evolving a model for AIDS prevention education among under-privileged adolescent girls in urban India." (1995).

Cornish, Flora, and Catherine Campbell. "The social conditions for successful peer education: a comparison of two HIV prevention programs run by sex workers in India and South Africa." American journal of community psychology 44, no. 1-2 (2009): 123-135.

Kirby, Douglas, Angela Obasi, and B. A. Laris. "The effectiveness of sex education and HIV education interventions in schools in developing countries." Technical Report Series-World Health Organization 938 (2006): 103.

Duraisamy, Palanigounder. "Changes in returns to education in India, 1983–94: by gender, age-cohort and location." Economics of Education Review 21, no. 6 (2002): 609-622.

Bhasin, Sanjiv Kumar, and O. P. Aggarwal. "Perceptions of teachers regarding sex education in National Capital Territory of Delhi." The Indian Journal of Pediatrics 66, no. 4 (1999): 527-531.

Agrawal, H. K., R. S. P. Rao, S. Chandrashekar, and J. B. S. Coulter. "Knowledge of and attitudes to HIV/AIDS of senior secondary school pupils and trainee teachers in Udupi District, Karnataka, India." Annals of Tropical Paediatrics: International Child Health 19, no. 2 (1999): 143-149.

Tripathi, Niharika, and T. V. Sekher. "Youth in India ready for sex education? Emerging evidence from national surveys." PloS one 8, no. 8 (2013): e71584.

Jejeebhoy, Shireen J. "Adolescent sexual and reproductive behavior: a review of the evidence from India." Social Science & Medicine 46, no. 10 (1998): 1275-1290.

Bhave, Geeta, Christina P. Lindan, Esther S. Hudes, Seema Desai, Usha Wagle, Shrivam P. Tripathi, and Jeffrey S. Mandel. "Impact of an intervention on HIV, sexually transmitted diseases, and condom use among sex workers in Bombay, India." Aids (1995).