We need to stop violence against women before it starts. The federal government’s Fourth Action Plan might not provide all of the answers, but it’s a sign of positive progress.
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Interventions to prevent and address sexual and gender-based violence in eastern DR Congo often reinforce traditional gender stereotypes
History shows that domestic violence has been deeply entrenched in the culture of Australia from its early days. Progress is only made by understanding this history – and talking about it.
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.
MeToo has brought tremendous attention to the issue of sexual violence, and a Calgary-based male-only education and mentorship program is responding.
Despite some progress in recent years in addressing gender-based violence, there is still a long way to go. A concerted and holistic approach is needed.
Sierra Leone has declared a national emergency to combat rape and sexual violence.
Bollywood actress Tanushree Dutta has opened the floodgates.
Many of the crime prevention strategies South African President Cyril Ramaphosa proposed have been tried, with few positive results.
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.
The vision set out by Cyril Ramaphosa has the seeds for galvanising South Africans to get back on the right path. But it urgently needs a plan to make it happen.
Very few women, especially those married, feel protected by the domestic violence laws in Sierra Leone.
The refugee convention wasn’t designed with women in mind. Women fleeing domestic violence and asking for asylum face many barriers to qualifying for protection under international law.
A study in Kenya found that the lower men ranked themselves in society, the more violent they were with their intimate partners.
There’s increasing global recognition that violence against women and children often occur together in homes.
Prevailing patriarchal and cultural norms in some societies prevent women victims of sexual crimes from talking out by shaming them.
The additional precautions many women take when travelling alone help us manage our fears and feel more empowered to enter into public spaces.
Women in the DRC are much more than victims of violence and coming together to effect change.
Survival sex can be a viable option for women managing homelessness. It ranged from staying with men for a night or a woman remaining in a sexual relationship to avoid becoming homeless again.
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Professor of Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
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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 in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Media and Technology Studies, and Director of the Feminist Collaboratory and Data Visualization Centre, University of Alberta
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Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Guelph
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Director of Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies, School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Global Studies, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor, Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Associate Professor, Indigenous Education & Research Centre, James Cook University
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Criminologist / Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
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Senior lecturer, University of Exeter
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Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Professor of Social Work; Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research, Griffith University