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Our Bodies Are Still Trembling: Haitian Women’s Fight Against Rape
Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti, 2010This report outlines evidence showing that the rape of women and girls dramatically increased in the aftermath of the devastating January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, especially in Internally Displace People (IDP) camps. In the first two months after the earthquake a grassroots women’s organisation reported 230 rapes in just fifteen IDP camps.DocumentThe Cotton Field case in Mexico: setting legal precedents for fighting gender-based violence | ELLA
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013Systemic discrimination is a key driver of gender-based violence in Latin America. So how is a key ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights helping to improve the protection of women’s rights across the region?DocumentBuilding legal frameworks to address femicide In Latin America
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013By reforming national penal codes and enacting special laws, Latin American countries are taking first steps towards eradicating femicide in the region.DocumentSexual Violence - The Psychosocial Working Group case study
Psychosocial Working Group, 2004Case study of sexual violence in Bosnia, looking at womens' group responses to survivors, and psychosocial frameworks in place to deal with victim support. In particular, how groups operate on: an individual level a group level a public and community level an international policy levelDocumentAccess to justice for survivors of sexual violence in conflicts: three Latin American approaches
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013What progress has been achieved in Latin America in the struggle for justice for women victims of sexual violence in contexts of conflict? In what ways have judicial institutions and grassroots organisations in Latin America learned from experiences in other regions of the world? What are the key features of more integral approaches to access to justice?DocumentTrafficking in persons report 2013
US Department of State, 2013Ending modern slavery must remain a foreign policy priority. This Report takes an unflinching view at human trafficking around the world, what governments are doing, and what they are failing to do.DocumentA synthesis of the learning from the stop violence against women campaign 2004-10
Amnesty International, 2010The Stop Violence Against Women (SVAW) campaign was Amnesty International’s (AI’s) first long-term global campaign. AI perceived a need for such an ambitious campaign, seeing itself as ‘late to the table’ in taking up women’s rights as core human rights. The SVAW campaign required substantial shifts in AI’s ways of working.DocumentThe civic origins of progressive policy change: combating violence against women in global perspective, 1975-2005
Cambridge University, 2012This article presents a global comparative analysis of policies on violence against women over four decades. The analysis comes from a dataset of policies in 70 countries between 1975 and 2005.DocumentReview of research on collective action and engaging men to tackle gender based violence
BRIDGE, 2012The aim of this review is to pull together examples of research that shows how collective forms of agency (whether in the form of social movements, coalitions or groups) have made a difference in eliciting positive social change in relation to gender-based violence; and highlights ways in which engaging men and masculinities on gender based violence issues has made a difference.DocumentHarmful traditional practices and child protection: contested understandings and practices of female child marriage and circumcision in Ethiopia
Young Lives, 2013Focusing on Ethiopia, this paper explores local perspectives on female child marriage and circumcision. Both practices are widespread in Ethiopia and reflect deep-rooted patriarchal and gerontocratic values regulating women’s reproduction and transactions between kin groups at marriage.Pages