Children are not routinely being snatched from pizza parlors and sold into sexual slavery. Sex trafficking more often looks like ‘vulnerable people struggling to survive’ through sex.
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Theatre is able to create a space for discussion about how and why women experience physical and emotional violence.
Removing funding from research-led projects puts people in highly vulnerable situations.
Thousands of teenagers have spoken up about sexual violence and harassment in secondary education on the Everyone’s Invited site.
An app to record consent won’t address the real problems of sexual violence and how our society responds to it.
Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick has reminded the public of low abduction statistics, but instances of sexual misconduct in public are still alarmingly high
Can everyday women expect men to dramatically revise their sexist attitudes like the men surrounding the chess whiz in ‘The Queen’s Gambit’? The MeToo utopia answers: Why shouldn’t they?
When rape allegations are in the news, it can be a traumatic experience for survivors of past sexual violence. But there are ways to shield yourself from further trauma.
There are many legitimate reasons why survivors of sexual violence may not immediately report to police. But a delay in reporting, in itself, should not affect the credibility of the allegations.
Adolescent girls face unique challenges in times of conflict and crisis yet they are rarely consulted about how to engender peace in their communities.
Sex and gender-based offences have become an increasing focus of war crimes trials at the International Criminal Court.
The Victorian parliament is considering a bill to change laws that prevent sexual violence victim-survivors from speaking about their experience. But some of the details need to be reconsidered.
Adolescents and young adults who reported having experienced sexual violence were more likely to have also had an unintended pregnancy.
Studies globally have made the link between the lack of adequate sanitation, particularly open defecation or shared community toilet facilities, and the increased risk of women and girls being raped.
A scholar who studies Holocaust survivors sees an explanation for why women change their stories of sexual assault, even now in the
MeToo era.
The Gender Equality Act in Victoria creates an obligation to understand how gender affects needs and experiences, and to design, assess and manage public spaces so women feel safe in those places.
In Mexico City, feminist groups spray-painted the names of Mexico’s murdered women on the pavement of the Zócalo, the capital city’s enormous main square, during the International Women’s Day March.
New research with survivors of sexual violence who have been forced to migrate reveals difficulties of COVID-19 lockdowns.
An international protocol to document and investigate sexual violence in conflict is falling short.
Our research on gender-based violence in mental health inpatient units in Victoria shows many women are not safe in these environments.
Top contributors
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor & Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University
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PhD Candidate, International Relations, Australian National University
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Managing Director, Her Story Consulting & Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University
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Professor of Criminology, Durham University
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Director, XYX Lab, and Associate Professor, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University
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Canada Research Chair in Inequality and Gender, Western University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Wollongong
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Lecturer in Law, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Law, University of Maryland, Baltimore
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Researcher, Unit for Religion and Development Research, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University
