The invisible men: wartime sexual violence against males
By Justyna Maciejczak In January 2009 Jean Paul – son of a wealthy Congolese businessman – was abducted by one of many rebel groups operating in the territory of DRC. On the first night of his...
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By Nesma El Shazly I was not allowed to leave the house throughout the first week of the revolution. Although my parents wholeheartedly endorsed the revolution, they feared for my life and would not...
View ArticleFrustrating 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...
View ArticleGender and the War on Terror
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 ArticleFrom Syria to Sochi: The increasing role of women in terrorism
By Joana Cook As the opening ceremony to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi quickly approaches, the security of both athletes and attendees remain at the forefront of international scrutiny in the wake...
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:...
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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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