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UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous emphasised that eliminating violence against women is essential to achieving broader ...

People I have spoken to in Aceh often said that the tsunami of December 2004 brought peace to their community. Despite the significant losses suffered in the disaster, it led to the restoration of ...

At the U.N.'s Commission on the Status of Women, Catholic sisters and advocates pointed to community-based solutions and ...

Craftivism” describes the convergence of craft and activism and has been woven into the fabric of history. For example, in the early 1900s, women in the suffrage movement creatively designed banners, ...

Gender-based violence (GBV) affects women and girls the most, especially during times of crisis or emergency. War, being forced to leave home and poverty make gender-based violence more likely and ...

Catherine Vanner receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In 2022, 184 women and girls were killed by violence in Canada. This number has steadily increased ...

Lisa Boucher receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Women and Gender Equality Canada. The COVID-19 pandemic brought renewed attention to the rising ...

In response, we submitted a detailed rebuttal to the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC), the very body that established the International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and ...