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Hace 1 día · The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), landmark bipartisan legislation first enacted by Congress in 1994, is a testament to the power of collective action. The hallmark of VAWA and its subsequent reauthorizations is a coordinated community response, which seeks to bring together advocates, service providers, agencies, and community partners across many disciplines to break down silos so that ...
Hace 15 horas · The Women’s March on 21 January 2017, opened a new social and political landscape for Muslim women to engage in Islamic liberatory activism. I locate Muslim women’s participation in the marches following the 2017 ‘Muslim travel ban policy’ as a site for discovering the link between the politics of resistance and the utility of Islam as a source for liberation. I argue that Muslim women ...
Hace 1 día · We want all girls and young women to have access to information about climate change and to know how they can make a difference. We are pushing for resources to be allocated and for early action plans to be developed in our communities. But we can’t do it alone. Today, we issue a call to action for all leaders:
Hace 3 días · The UN’s Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda emphasizes women’s victimhood and peacemaking roles. However, women participate in two-thirds of armed movements and affect conflict outcomes in unique gendered ways. This article argues that excluding female perpetrators from the WPS agenda generates new insecurities for them and broader ...
Hace 2 días · June 4, 2024. This foreword by Senior Fellow José Casanova begins to unpack how the question concerning the relation between religion and violence hangs upon the conditions under which religion serves to sacralize socio-political violence, helping to make it “legitimate.”. It was published in Exiting Violence: The Role of Religion, co ...
Hace 3 días · We must heed the urgent call for greater investments in women’s organizations. We must take collective action to enable women’s full, equal, and safe participation and leadership in environmental and climate decision-making. Our common future depends on all of us, together.
Hace 4 días · The literature on the continuum of violence has investigated the disparities with which socially accepted violence has been consequently compromising the quality of ‘peace’ for women and girls, disproportionally victimizing them and other secluded individuals in our societies (True & Hewitt, 2018), in times of conflict and non-conflict (Hooks, 1989; López & Myrttinen, 2022; True & Hewitt ...
