Homeless women are particularly vulnerable to gendered violence.
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Survival sex can be a viable option for women managing homelessness. It ranged from staying with men for a night or a woman remaining in a sexual relationship to avoid becoming homeless again.
South African women march against high levels of gender based violence in the country.
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Gender based violence should not be addressed only once it has happened, by jailing offenders. Prevention is just as important.
Hundreds rally against sexual violence in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Rape culture in Kenya means that women are often blamed for being victims of assault. This needs to change.
Your connected speaker can quickly become a problem if it is not secured.
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Connected objects can do a lot of good, but they can also become weapons in the hands of abusive partners. How can these new risks be prevented?
Forced marriage is still common in some cultures, but younger generations reject it.
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Even for those that escape, the stigma of refusing a forced marriage separates young women from their family and community.
In Mozambique, gender-based violence, early marriage and early pregnancy all play a part in compromising the health of mothers and infants.
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Mozambique has one of the highest maternal death rates in the world. Researchers hope to reduce this, with an ambitious project aimed at empowering women and girls.
South Africa has been dubbed “the rape capital of the world”.
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South Africa has tended to prioritise race relations over gender relations since formal apartheid ended.
Music festivals tend to be geared toward young audiences, and may constitute the site of sexual harassment and assault against younger women.
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Sexual harassment and assault are common experiences in general: there is no reason to assume this is any different at music festivals.
Former Congolese rebel warlord, Jean-Pierre Bemba.
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Under the Rome Statute, court ordered reparations are available to victims after the accused is found guilty. In the case of Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, this involves over 5,000 victims.
According to a Global Adolescent Study boys are given more freedom and independence than girls.
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Do boys and girls from diverse cultural settings experience their transitions into adolescence? Their cultural differences don’t make a difference, but their genders do.
In the transition to democracy in South Africa the promise of a more gender-equal society has struggled to gain traction.
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South Africa has one of the worst records of violence against women in the world. But not all women in the country seem to want to change this.
A South African student invites people to “walk in others’ shoes” doing a protest about gender based violence.
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High profile stories of femicide come with a flare up of societal outrage, protest and collective introspection. But nothing ever really changes.
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Unless we’re addressing inequalities everywhere, we will achieve equality nowhere.
Intrusions from unknown men in public space form a fundamental factor in how women experience their bodies and live their freedom.
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Despite persistent myths that sexual violence and harassment are rare, two recent cases – and the subsequent online response – expose their commonality.
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We know how to prevent gender-based violence, and that we must respond to survivors’ needs. The challenge is in making it happen.
Psychology as an academic discipline needs to take a long, hard look at itself.
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Psychologists drew historically from theories of social Darwinism and eugenics to espouse the hierarchical categorisation of people into race groups.
‘Femicidal state’: a woman protests female murder rates in Mexico City.
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More than 44% of Mexican women face violence in their homes. Some of them become asylum seekers in the United States.
Life in a refugee camp in Juba, South Sudan.
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The violence and instability that wracks South Sudan is profoundly gendered.
The advertising industry has a long and chequered history of objectifying women.
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When the inevitable backlash happens, little changes.
Sydney man Zane Alchin pleaded guilty to bombarding young women on Facebook with graphic, sexually violent messages.
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A case in Sydney is the latest instance in which the powers-that-be contribute to the widespread victim-blaming and perpetrator-exonerating in relation to cyber violence against women and girls.