When a patriarchal society is combined with a history of colonialism, women in that country are at heightened risk of gender-based violence.
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While marketing has made diamond rings a symbol of heteronormative happy endings, women from the Northwest Territories tell a different story about their experiences with the diamond mines.
Ignorant assumptions about what the headscarf means fail to recognise how integral it can be to a woman’s identity.
While most people offering support to Ukrainians are well-intentioned, it’s not always the case. There are a reports of women and girls fleeing Ukraine being raped in their new countries.
Social security reforms are needed that include support for the long-term and chronically unemployed and informal workers.
Kicking off the cup with three straight wins, South Africa is ranked 2nd in the world in one day internationals.
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.
The census will focus everyone in on the core challenges the country faces, where they are, and who is most affected.
Female Fear Factory by Pumla Dineo Gqola sees gender violence as a sophisticated ecosystem kept alive by socially manufactured fear.
Stigmatiser les victimes de viol est lourd de conséquences. Il les réduit au silence, protège les violeurs, les décourage à se faire consulter et à réclamer justice.
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.
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.
The practice of blaming and stigmatising rape survivors has devastating consequences. It silences them and protects rapists. It discourages survivors from accessing healthcare and pursuing justice.
Statistics show that about 41% of women in Kenya have reported physical or sexual violence from their husbands or partners in their lifetime.
A French trial will use virtual reality headsets to trigger empathy in perpetrators. But previous research findings suggest we need to be sceptical of claims about what the technology can do.
Findings show that in the face of marginalisation and social exclusion, youth in gangs think that they have no options except violence to prove that they are ‘real’ men in their communities.
The problem of gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa is structural and fuelled by inequalities that transect race, class, gender, sexuality and age.
The government’s violence against women strategy fails to adequately address the reasons for women’s lack of safety.
Universities must take leadership in the fight to stop sexual and gender-based violence in first-year orientation week.
Kontributor teratas
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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 of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Lecturer in Global Studies, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor, Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Global Challenges Research Fellow, University of Sheffield
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Senior Lecturer, Gender and International Politics, University of Bristol
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Women & Politics Ph.D. Program, Rutgers University
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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Senior lecturer, University of Exeter
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Professor and Research Leadership Chair, Sociology, University of Guelph
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Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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PhD Candidate, Gender, Sexuality and Women Studies, Western University
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Professor of Social Work; Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research, Griffith University
