Around 33,000 child marriages took place in 2020 in Indonesia, a new report shows. This comes with more girls in Australia's region dropping out of school and taking on more caring responsibilities.
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Articles on gender based violence
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Adolescent girls can contribute to social change, economic growth, sustainable development and peaceful societies. They should be able to live their lives free from violence.
The importance of accessing water that's safe to drink and enough for washing, cleaning and cooking is clear, but little attention has been given to the safety of water collection away from home.
While restrictions on civil and political liberties may be necessary to protect lives, human rights law requires that they go no further than what's strictly necessary to achieve this goal.
Eradicating sexism in newsrooms will benefit both men and women.
During epidemics, the measures taken to protect populations and to keep health systems afloat leave women and girls vulnerable to violence.
An estimated 2000 million women have undergone female genital mutilation and millions more are at risk. The practice is carried out mainly for cultural and economic reasons.
Two interventions proved effective in reducing men's perpetration, but not women's experiences of violence.
Gender stereotyping might be funny, but it's no joke. A public health professor explains why she took action against everyday sexism when she heard it in a radio advert.
Research has a distinctive role to play because it gives pointers on what is needed to create long-term change.
New national data, on campuses and elsewhere, can help shift our shared narratives about the root causes of gender-based violence.
Interventions to prevent and address sexual and gender-based violence in eastern DR Congo often reinforce traditional gender stereotypes
Why sexual and gender based violence has become a phenomenon within refugee families.
Sexual violence is a global phenomenon that's been around for centuries.
Bollywood actress Tanushree Dutta has opened the floodgates.
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.
Gender based violence should not be addressed only once it has happened, by jailing offenders. Prevention is just as important.
Rape culture in Kenya means that women are often blamed for being victims of assault. This needs to change.
South Africa has tended to prioritise race relations over gender relations since formal apartheid ended.
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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Associate Professor in the SAMRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Political Science and SARChi Chair in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Associate professor of International Relations, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Criminology and Justice Studies, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Global Studies, RMIT University
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Distinguished Professor and H F Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Lecturer in Social and Critical Psychology, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Journalism, City, University of London
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Postdoctoral fellow, SARChi Chair in Gender politics, Stellenbosch University
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Head of Human Rights, Principal Lecturer in Criminology, Sheffield Hallam University
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Reader in Gender Studies, Liverpool John Moores University
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Reader in Development Studies, Liverpool John Moores University
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Senior specialist scientist: Gender and Health Research Unit, Medical Research Council, South African Medical Research Council
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Senior lecturer, University of Oslo
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Professor of International Development Studies, University of Portsmouth
