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Funding schemes and support towards gender-based violence prevention and sexual and reproductive health in Lebanon: a critical analysis of their impacts on human rights defenders

23/05/2023

18 pages long

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Funding schemes and support towards gender-based violence prevention and sexual and reproductive health in Lebanon: a critical analysis of their impacts on human rights defenders

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Since 2019, Lebanon has undergone multiple economic, political, and social crises that have exacerbated the heavy burdens on its population, including poverty, unemployment, and economic precarity. The ramifications of these recent shocks for gender-based violence (GBV) and access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services are particularly stark, which has drawn the attention and concern […]

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‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

23/05/2023

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‘If You Want Peace, Create Peace’: women’s rights organisations as operatives of hybrid peace in the former Yugoslavia

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Gender-based harms experienced in conflict constitute a threat to the right of women and girls to live with dignity. However, transitional justice processes to manage the delicate nexus between peace and justice often do not consider these harms, resulting in adverse outcomes for women and girls in post-conflict societies. At the frontlines of the fight […]

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Strategies of discrediting: attacks on feminist activists in Turkey

23/05/2023

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Strategies of discrediting: attacks on feminist activists in Turkey

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The Istanbul Feminist Night March has been organised since 2003, and it has the distinction of being the most participatory feminist protest organised in Turkey. As the space for civil society in Turkey shrinks, feminists are the only dissident group that continue to take to the streets. However, the Feminist Night March has been banned […]

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Collectivising within the maternal framework: Prayer Warriors Forum of Rumuekpe

23/05/2023

14 pages long

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Collectivising within the maternal framework: Prayer Warriors Forum of Rumuekpe

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The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the Prayer Warriors of Rumuekpe, Rivers State, Nigeria, a women human rights defenders group demonstrated their ability to contribute to the peace process despite the patriarchal structures that impede them and conditions of extreme violence. The women saw the need to adopt methods that were in […]

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A revolution of the mind: a tribute to Rula Quawas (1960–2017)

23/05/2023

3 pages long

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A revolution of the mind: a tribute to Rula Quawas (1960–2017)

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This is a tribute to Rula Quawas, a Jordanian scholar, activist, and feminist, who passed away in 2017. The author shares how Rula touched the lives of so many of her students by encouraging them to dare in their lives and scholarship. Her feminist mentorship transformed the lives of many. This tribute calls on readers to dare and […]

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Ekla Chalo Re: a tribute to Ms. Mary Roy

23/05/2023

2 pages long

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Ekla Chalo Re: a tribute to Ms. Mary Roy

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women human rights defenders

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This is a tribute to activist Mary Roy, who passed away in 2022. The author traces the life of Mary Roy, highlighting the ways in which she challenged gendered norms and expectations. She was the applicant in a landmark case which brought equal property rights for Syrian Christian women in India. The author reminds readers […]

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Edilia Mendoza Roa, una mujer que lucha por el derecho a la tierra, Colombia / Edilia Mendoza Roa, a woman who fights for land rights, Colombia

23/05/2023

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Edilia Mendoza Roa, una mujer que lucha por el derecho a la tierra, Colombia / Edilia Mendoza Roa, a woman who fights for land rights, Colombia

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This is a tribute to Edilia Mendoza Roa, an activist and one of Colombia's best known agrarian experts, who passed away in February, 2023. The authors discuss her contributions to the struggle for land and environmental rights and her involvement in formulation of laws and resolutations leading to agrarian reform and rural development for farmers and […]

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Cristina Bautista, colombiana e indígena, lideresa social y tejedora de pensamiento y comunidad / Cristina Bautista, a Colombian and indigenous social leader, community thinker, and weaver of thoughts

23/05/2023

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Cristina Bautista, colombiana e indígena, lideresa social y tejedora de pensamiento y comunidad / Cristina Bautista, a Colombian and indigenous social leader, community thinker, and weaver of thoughts

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This is a tribute to activist, Cristina Bautista in Colombia. She was an indigenous woman working on the rights of women in her community and on land rights. The author traces Cristina's life and the Hilando pensamientos (Weaving Thoughts), the Nasa women's movement. Her activism was powerful, and Cristina was killed in 2019 by armed actors.

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Yanette Bautista, toda una vida de lucha y búsqueda / Yanette Bautista, a lifetime of struggle and searching

23/05/2023

3 pages long

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Yanette Bautista, toda una vida de lucha y búsqueda / Yanette Bautista, a lifetime of struggle and searching

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women human rights defenders

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El caso de Augostina Mayan y las violencias diferenciadas hacia las defensoras del ambiente y del territorio en Perú / The case of Augostina Mayan and the differentiated forms of violence against women who defend the environment and their lands in Peru

23/05/2023

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El caso de Augostina Mayan y las violencias diferenciadas hacia las defensoras del ambiente y del territorio en Perú / The case of Augostina Mayan and the differentiated forms of violence against women who defend the environment and their lands in Peru

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This is a short piece about Augostina Mayan, an Awajún leader, situated within the larger context of land rights in Peru. Augostina's powerful activism has meant that she has been subjected to accusations and political violence, often gendered in their nature. The authors call for a recognition of the often gendered nature of violence against […]

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