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I’m certain this case will continue to be discussed in the media and academia and will continue to shape society’s understanding of the complexities of intimate partner violence.
In today’s episode, we hear from two women who talk about how diamond mines in the Northwest Territories have negatively impacted women and girls and perpetuated gender violence.
We asked participants about why they think people (mostly men) harass others in public space. Their answers were revealing.
A patchwork of Roman laws (including Rome’s complex murder laws) sought to address coercive and violent behaviour
Giving incel ideology too much time and energy ends up perpetuating it, instead of stopping it.
Whole-life sentences are rarely handed down in the UK. Recent instances of their use point to gendered violence finally being taken more seriously.
When a patriarchal society is combined with a history of colonialism, women in that country are at heightened risk of gender-based violence.
The murder of R. Rubuntja brings to light the ways Australian media and the Australian justice system continues to fail First Nations women.
It is important to help young people understand what misogyny is and how it can lead to violence.
One policy expert says we need a royal commission into ‘what the hell is going on’ with the gender pay gap.
The Taliban’s recent abduction of 40 people, and gang rape of eight women, has not captured Western media attention. But activists inside Afghanistan point to worrying levels of violence.
Female Fear Factory by Pumla Dineo Gqola sees gender violence as a sophisticated ecosystem kept alive by socially manufactured fear.
The pandemic has led to an increase in online interactions, including sexually violent behaviours. Teens as young as 12 are affected, but many victims are not aware of their options in seeking justice.
Violent or ‘rough’ sex is often part of a pattern of coercive control.
Latin American activists have made important contributions to the movement against gender-based violence. Their impact has been significant within global feminist movements.
The struggle against sexual harassment and sexual assault at Ontario universities goes back to the 1970s.
In covering femicide, media have a leading role, not only in awareness and education generally, but in actively shaping the construction of attitudes and beliefs that can help prevention efforts.
Eight academics from across the world interviewed around 150 women about their stories of migration – revealing the threat many experience at every stage of their journey.
Private and public violence rely on each other as forces that work together to ensure women and girls ‘stay in their place’ — the one that patriarchal social structures have prescribed.
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