During this webinar recording, speakers unpack attitudes/beliefs in relation to child and adolescent survivors with disabilities; the rights-based model for disabilities; risks faced by child and adolescent survivors with disabilities using an intersectional lens; and barriers that child and adolescent survivors with disabilities may face when accessing services. Read More
Gender-based Violence
“If You Are Born a Girl in This Crisis, You Are Born a Problem”: Patterns and Drivers of Violence Against Women and Girls in Conflict-Affected South Sudan
This article presents the results of a qualitative study on the context and different forms of violence committed against women and girls in South Sudan. The study documents many forms of sexual and physical violence against women and girls in South Sudan, including conflict-related sexual violence, intimate partner violence, nonpartner sexual violence, child and forced marriage, and abduction.Read More
Webinar Recording: Gender-Based Violence in a Changing Climate: Challenges and Action – From Grassroots to Policy
What does gender-based violence have to do with tackling climate change – or vice versa? In this webinar recording, a wide range of experts and leaders from across disciplines discuss these critical linkages, exploring policy frameworks, leveraging lessons and resources across sectors, and strategies for on-the-ground action to realize rights and resilience. The recording is also available in Spanish and French.Read More
Strengthening Safeguards: Strategies for Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Environmental Projects
This tool was originally developed for a set of fisheries project partners in Southeast Asia at their request, following the results of a gender analysis process, to better understand and prioritize resources and action to tackle gender-based violence (GBV). Now modified for broader awareness-raising, this tool provides an array of specific interventions that environment programs, donors, and practitioners could consider to strengthen attention to addressing...Read More
Preventing Violence Against Women: Dispatches From the Frontiers of Research and Practice
In this webinar recording, Lori Heise, Professor of Gender, Violence and Health at JHSPH, gives an account of her career and the emergence of violence against women on the global health agenda. “In trying to create social change, it’s important that we don’t forget our history because it so often gets lost or even rewritten,” says Heise.Read More
COVID-19 and Violence Against Women: The Evidence Behind the Talk
This study, conducted in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand, the Philippines, and Singapore, conducted an analysis of big data to better understand pre- and post-COVID perceptions and concerns around violence against women. The webinar recording from the launch can be found here (passcode: i!Ci2MH4), the slides from the presentation can be found here, and a three-page fact sheet on the study can be found here.Read More
