Frustrating anniversaries: International Women’s Day and international action...
By Melissa Guinan: Radhika Coomaraswamy, lead author of the Global Study on the Implementation of UNSCR 1325 Each year around March 8, International Women’s Day, op-ed pages and Twitter streams burst...
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By Caroline Cottet: Specialist Lynndie England holds an Iraqi detainee on a lead at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, 2003. Photo: Wikipedia. When making sense of the people and things around us, it is often...
View ArticleDonald Trump and the Perils of Modern Masculinity
By: Harris Kuemmerle The recent release of comments made by Donald Trump in 2005 brought to light what many people have known for a number of years; that Donald Trump has a problem with women. In...
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by Miles Cameron Hunter 9 July 2019 One of thousands of Syria’s widows; Hanaa’s husband went missing before their son was even born. She now struggles to support him on her own. (Image credit: 2014...
View ArticleThe Arms Trade Treaty & Gender-Based Violence: Challenges Require Data &...
by Hannah Papachristidis, ‘Non-Violence’ also known as ‘The Knotted Gun’, bronze sculpture by Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, 1985. (Source:...
View ArticleWomen and children first: how the Myth of Protection is harming… men
By Amber Holland A refugee appears exhausted while swimming towards the shore after a dinghy carrying Syrian and Afghan refugees deflated about 100 meters before reaching the Greek island of Lesbos,...
View ArticleGender in Politics: Female leadership in times of the Covid-19 pandemic
By Rixa Riess New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Arden (https://images.app.goo.gl/28n8hZgHptbh4RdA8) The Coronavirus crisis amplified the grievances of society through a burning glass. Women’s...
View ArticleGendered Partition of India: An Untold Story
By Akshara Goel Women during the partition. Source – Sabrang India. ‘Partition has caused the politics of the belly’ – Francois Bayart. On 15th August 1947 India attained independence from the two...
View ArticleIntersectionality in Crimmigration: Gender, Race and Crossing Borders
By Jasmin Lilian Diab Source: American Progress, 2019 The last decade has witnessed a great deal of insight and contribution by scholars and practitioners into the push factors, quality, and...
View ArticleFeminist Foreign Policy and South Asia: A scuffle between values and change
Nepalese Battalion received UN Medal.Photo Credit: United Nations, licensed under Creative Commons. ‘The personal is political.’ The above sentence, coined by Carol Hanisch, encapsulates a simple yet...
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