Geography

ICRW GENDER EQUITY & MALE ENGAGEMENT (REPORT) It only works if everyone plays   Meaningful engagement with men and boys is increasingly recognized as critical to gender equality and equity, necessary not only for women’s […]

INTLAWGRRLS — In early July 2013, Human Rights Watch reported that one of the alleged perpetrators of the 2009 Guinea stadium massacre, Lieutenant-Colonel Claude Pivi, has been charged with murder, rape and destruction of property. This […]

Research: An evolutionary analysis of gender-based war crimes and the continued tolerance of “forced marriage”.

ICC — Over the past few decades, the international community has taken progressive steps to put an end to impunity for sexual and gender-based crimes. The Statute of the ICC is the first international instrument […]

The 8th edition of Sakhalin, in Russia “On the edge” film festival, takes place from 24 to 31 August in a very remote island. 40Braids’ exclusive interview with Alexei Medvedev, artistic director of the festival.

Two new books — “Leftover in China” and “The Heart Is a Shifting Sea” — look to China and India, respectively, to assess how marriage withstands breakneck economic growth, social change and the increasing financial independence of women.

NOVASTAN  Novastan reprend et traduit un article initialement publié par le média kazakh en ligne, 365info.kz. Le 12 août dernier, une délégation des Talibans est venue discuter à Tachkent sur l’invitation des autorités ouzbèkes. Un évènement […]

Reuters – NEW DELHI, June 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Beaten up, raped and repeatedly impregnated by her father for more than a decade – a young woman’s fight for justice in the face of threats, oppression […]

 In a community that considers victims of sexual violence a disgrace, women are left alone to suffer.

Natural disasters, projected in many climate models to increase in frequency and intensity, reveal the complex relationship between gender and climate. In general, natural disasters exacerbate existing inequalities and disproportionately affect women: more women are killed than men