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3 days ago · These selected resources on ending violence against women (EVAW), produced between 2022 and 2024 across various regions and offices, cover critical areas of UN Women’s EVAW work, such as research and data collection, prevention, response, crisis, and partnerships. Each publication addresses key gaps and provides actionable guidance, data, and tools to support stakeholders working towards the ...
4 days ago · To best prevent incidents of violence against women and girls, it is important to also consider how attacks have changed. Like with many things, the evolution of technology and specifically social media has changed how people interact. One in 10 women in the European Union have faced online harassment since turning 15.
2 days ago · Photo: UN Women. This phenomenon was extensively discussed during an event dubbed Women’s Economic Empowerment: Focus on Gender Equality, Violence Against Women in Politics (VAWP) and the Promotion of Political Participation of Women in Elections hosted by UN Women East and Southern Africa Office (ESARO), Women’s Political Participation (WPP) Unit and SADC Lawyers Association as part of ...
1 day ago · As Caron E. Gentry and Laura Sjoberg argue, violent women are “often thought of as not only bad but as bad women – in the sense that they are bad and they are women, and in the sense that their violence makes them bad at being women” (Carol E Gentry and Laura Sjoberg Citation 2015, 3). The Yellowjackets consistently and aggressively disrupt gender expectations in complex and ambiguous ways.
2 days ago · In 2016, the Inter-Parliamentary Union published a global study on Violence Against Women in Politics (VAWP), based on interviews with women MPs from around the world. The study showed, strikingly, that more than 80% of the women interviewed had experienced some form of psychological violence in the course of their work in parliament.
5 days ago · During her 25-year career she has launched and managed many major projects and initiatives related to improving the criminal legal system. Her current portfolio of work includes directing the Regilla Project, an effort to study the frequency with which women in the United States are imprisoned for surviving intimate partner violence.
3 days ago · Recent female assassin movies include Anna, Red Sparrow, and Proud Mary. The latter is especially unique, in that it offers something very rare onscreen - a female assassin who's also African-American. Others go back further. Prizzi's Honor, which casts Kathleen Turner as an assassin, was released back in 1985.
