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Frustrating anniversaries: International Women’s Day and international action...
By Melissa Guinan: Radhika Coomaraswamy, lead author of the Global Study on the Implementation of UNSCR 1325 Each year around March 8, International Women’s Day, op-ed pages and Twitter streams burst...
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Strife Series on United Nations Peacekeeping, Part IV – Lessons Through a...
By Caitlyn OFlaherty UN peacekeepers control South Sudanese women and children before the distribution of emergency food supplies in a PoC site in Juba (Credit Image: Adriane Ohanesian/Reuters)...
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A Balancing Act? Women’s Participation in Indian Politics
By Saawani Raje 17 May 2019 Indian Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with military chiefs (Indian Express) On 9 August 1942, Aruna Asaf Ali walked into a highly charged gathering of thousands of...
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Out of Balance: A Review of Women’s Rights in Myanmar
by Anna Plunkett 27 May 2019 Women Factory Workers Strike (The Myanmar Times, 2011) Myanmar is a country that has sprung to global attention in the last few years, its seemingly self-led non-violent...
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Notorious RBG: Justice Ginsburg and Shattering the Glass Ceiling
by Isabela Betoret Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her chambers in at the Supreme Court on July 31, 2014. Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg The passing of Justice...
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The Forgotten Casualties: The Indirect Gendered Consequences of Explosive...
by Miles Cameron Hunter 9 July 2019 One of thousands of Syria’s widows; Hanaa’s husband went missing before their son was even born. She now struggles to support him on her own. (Image credit: 2014...
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Female Suicide Bombers: An Uncomfortable Truth
By Anne Preesman Black Widow ready for action (Daily Star, 2010) In the early 2000s, Russia engaged in a violent war with its southern republic of Chechnya. During the conflict, the Chechen insurgents...
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Changing the Patriarchal Mindset: Combatting Rape as a Weapon of War in Tigray
Photo Credit: Rod Waddington, licensed under Creative Commons The Tigray Region in northern Ethiopia, once the core of the Aksumite Kingdom, is now witnessing a grinding civil war. Of grave...
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Series on Women and Children’s Health in Conflict – Maternal and Reproductive...
A Palestinian woman holds her baby in one of the UNRWA school shelters in the Gaza Strip during Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014, Photo by UNRWA. This article is part of the Strife...
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Agnes Wanjiru, the British armed forces and the language of silence
British soldiers on exercise in Kenya. Photographed by Cpl Jamie Hart, used under Open Government License During 2021, two prominent British public institutions, the Metropolitan Police and the armed...
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