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2. Technology and Gender Based Violence
- Author:
- SVRI
- Publication Date:
- 11-2019
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- The Sexual Violence Research Initiative
- Abstract:
- Technologies are converging in new ways to change how we live, work and organize. In some cases, attempts are being made to use technology to make women’s access to services safer, reducing the risk of sexual harassment, a form of gender-based violence (GBV). It can be used to ensure easier, more comprehensive access to information and services, including for survivors of violence. However, technology can also be used to facilitate and expand the reach of GBV. Perpetrators can use technology to monitor, harass, threaten, intimidate, impersonate, and stalk victims.
- Topic:
- Science and Technology, Internet, Gender Based Violence, and Sexual Violence
- Political Geography:
- Uganda, Pakistan, Kenya, India, Ethiopia, Honduras, and Democratic Republic of Congo
3. How do global supply chains exacerbate gender-based violence against women in the global south?
- Author:
- Garcia Isabella
- Publication Date:
- 09-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex
- Abstract:
- In 2018/2019 the CGPE launched an annual Gender & Global Political Economy Undergraduate Essay Prize competition, open to all undergraduate students within the School of Global Studies. The winner of the 2018/2019 competition is Isabella Garcia for the essay “How do global supply chains exacerbate gender-based violence against women in the Global South?” Isabella graduated with a BA in International Relations and Development in July and will join the MA cohort in our Global Political Economy programme for 2019/2020. Given the very strong field of submissions, the award committee further decided to award a second-place prize to Yume Tamiya for the essay “Does the rise of the middle class disguise existing inequalities in Brazil?”. Yume graduated with a BA in International Development with International Education and Development. We are delighted to publish both of these excellent essays in the CGPE Working Paper series.
- Topic:
- Economics, Gender Issues, Women, Gender Based Violence, and Global South
- Political Geography:
- Africa, Latin America, Mexico, and Democratic Republic of Congo
4. "Leave No One to Tell the Tales": The Role of Pain and Recollection in Post-Conflict Reconciliation in Africa
- Author:
- Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi
- Publication Date:
- 03-2017
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Social Science Research Council
- Abstract:
- Using testimonies of child soldiers and amputees from Sierra Leone, accounts from survivors of the Rwandan genocide, and recollections of survivors of rape and sexual violence from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this essay explores the intersection between pain, its recollection, and post-conflict recovery in Africa. Between 1991 and 2002, unprecedented violence gripped Sierra Leone, leading to the death of an estimated 50,000 people. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) set up after the civil war reported that a rebel group, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), orchestrated “indiscriminate amputations, abduction of women and children, recruitment of children as combatants, rape and sexual slavery, cannibalism, gratuitous killings, and wanton destruction of villages and towns” against ethnic groups believed to be loyal to President Joseph Saidu Momoh and the All People’s Congress (APC), the party that had ruled Sierra Leone since 1968
- Topic:
- Children, Gender Based Violence, Conflict, and Sexual Violence
- Political Geography:
- Africa, Sierra Leone, and Democratic Republic of Congo