Research has a distinctive role to play because it gives pointers on what is needed to create long-term change.
People listen to a speaker as they gather in Nathan Phillips Square, before embarking on a Women’s March in Toronto on Jan. 20, 2018.
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New national data, on campuses and elsewhere, can help shift our shared narratives about the root causes of gender-based violence.
Projects that support Congolese women who have survived gender violence often promote ideal notions of how men and women should behave.
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Sara Parker, Liverpool John Moores University and Kay Standing, Liverpool John Moores University
Chhaupadi, the practice of exiling menstruating women and girls from their home, often to a cow shed, is still practised in some areas of Western Nepal.
South African women march against high levels of gender based violence in the country.
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Psychologists drew historically from theories of social Darwinism and eugenics to espouse the hierarchical categorisation of people into race groups.
Members of the ANC Women’s League protest outside the South African court where British businessman Shrien Dewani faced charges of murdering his Swedish bride. He was acquitted.
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On November 25 each year, South Africa launches its annual 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children campaign. Gender based violence is still a massive challenge.
Our Watch chair Natasha Stott Despoja launched the national violence-prevention framework at Parliament House in Canberra this week.
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Australia is poised to lead the world by demonstrating the kind of nationwide, cultural and structural change necessary to forever change the story of violence against women.
Relationship lessons are a good thing, but they’re just the start of measures to combat violence towards women.
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