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Commentary

Shelter-in-Place: How it Impacts Sexual Violence

By: Dr. K. Ashley Garling | March 26, 2020

How do you know if you or someone you love is a victim of IPV and reproductive coercion?

Commentary

Too Late For My Daughter: It’s Time to Treat Violence Against Women as a National Emergency

By: Dr. Buck Blodgett | July 17, 2019

Her death left me stunned, shocked and filled with anguish, yet also inspired me to do all I can to prevent such horrors from happening to others in the future.

#MenToo: Men Need to Stand Up in the Age of Trump

By: Rob Okun | October 17, 2017

“Women want a men’s movement; we are literally dying for it.”

Yezidi Women
Yezidi woman in yellow dress and white scarf stands against the wall of a building, staring off screen

In German Sanctuary, Yezidi Women Begin to Face the Aftermath

By: Eetta Prince-Gibson | September 14, 2016

“They are experiencing multiple levels of trauma,” says the medical chief of this special quota project. “There is the individual trauma, of course. And the collective trauma; because the genocide was directed at their entire community.”

Teen Voices

Laws Too Little, Too Late to Save Ugandan Girl From Rape

By: Moureen Kisakye | September 5, 2016
From our partner Women In Leadership Uganda

Despite her community’s belief to the contrary, “divorce does not cause rape, rapists cause rape,” writes Ugandan teen Moureen Kisakye.

Humanitarian Summit

Women and Girls Must Be at Center of Any Refugee Response

By: Patricia Fernandes Da Silva | May 23, 2016

During the first Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, the needs of women and girls caught up in the refugee crisis should assume their proper place at the center of world concern.

social media
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‘Likes’ and Live Streaming Rape: Let’s Talk About it with Our Kids

By: Jillana Enteen | May 18, 2016

Parents and teachers do not need to demonize apps like Periscope or Twitter. Instead, we must consistently remind kids to carry the same set of values between real life and social networking.

Commentary
ER-Sign

No Plan B: For Colored Girls Who Pursue Holistic Reproductive Care When the Emergency Room is Not Enough

By: Sevonna M. Brown | March 3, 2016

When a black woman walks into a medical institution, her trauma shows up at the door with her. Beyond childbirth, sexual trauma greatly impacts the lives of black women who desire any kind of reproductive health care.

disability rights

Wartime Violence against Disabled Women Often Ignored

By: Juhie Bhatia (Managing Editor) | June 18, 2014

Disability rights activists called for a variety of remedies during a panel of a major London conference last week. “If you have reduced mobility, it makes it that much harder to run when everyone else is fleeing from the village, you may have less chance to run away,” said one speaker.

Brazil

In Domestic Violence, No Incident Is Too Minor

By: Cindy Dyer | December 19, 2013

It starts with black eyes and broken fingers and moves up the ladder to the crimes that make the news. By prosecuting lower level crimes and addressing intimate partner violence before it escalates, we will save women’s lives around the world.

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