The Worst-Kept Open Secret: Sexual Abuse Crimes Perpetrated by UN Peacekeepers: We need criminal accountability, not guidelines, and blind eyes.
Introduction We have heard how rape is used as a weapon or tactic of war[i], but it is time to
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Month: May 2023
A Playbook to Design & Deliver Financial Savings Solutions for Women
The gender gap looms large in financial inclusion. Across developing economies, women are six percentage points less likely than men
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Calling on Women to Extinguish the Flames: The Power of Female Leadership in Conflict Resolution
As two Palestinian and Israeli women and friends, who have lived through longstanding antagonism of our nations, we have seen
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Compensating at Scale: America’s Insecure Masculinity and the Police
In this article, Rick Miles offers a gender and masculinity based explanation for the expansion of policing and police militarization in American public life as an example of compensatory masculinity.
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We Can’t Go Back. Private Universities Must Counter the Attack on Gender Studies
In this article, Mara Bolis presents the argument for private universities to defend intersectional gender studies from new laws restricting discussions of gender, race, sexuality, inequality and even American history at public institutions.
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Shifting the Focus from Weapons to Women: Reimagining Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
In this article, Bryn de Chastelain explores the benefits of gender-sensitive reintegration efforts within DDR programmes in DRC.
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