Tag: Women & Girls
52 Articles
- Dialogues
Dr. Jeni Klugman on COVID-19’s Toll on Women and the State of Gender Equality
GJIA: The Beijing +25 report mentions how COVID-19 is worsening gender inequality in the labor market. Why are female workers disproportionately impacted, and how has this played…
November 20, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
“Not One Women Less, Not One More Death:” Feminist Activism and Policy Responses to Gender-Based Violence in Latin America
In 2011, Mexican poet and human rights activist Susana Chávez Castillo was tortured and killed in Ciudad Juárez. Eighteen years earlier, she coined the phrase “ni una mujer…
August 12, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
Where are the Women? Why Expanding our Understanding of Venezuela’s Humanitarian Crisis Matters
Considering that humanitarian and displacement crises affect women disproportionately and exacerbate existing gender inequalities, it is crucial for researchers and policymakers…
May 11, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
PART III: The Post-Conflict Window: A Critical Opportunity to Advance Women’s Participation in Post-Conflict Societies
Women’s roles and contributions to SSR Women can foster local ownership of SSR by facilitating dialogue between the local community, policy makers, and the security sector. In…
April 24, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
PART II: The Post-Conflict Window: A Critical Opportunity to Advance Women’s Participation in Post-Conflict Societies
Changing patterns in labor participation Women’s labor participation may increase during the conflict to fill the roles previously played by men. However, women tend to perform…
April 23, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
PART I: The Post-Conflict Window: A Critical Opportunity to Advance Women’s Participation in Post-Conflict Societies
Post-conflict reconstruction is not merely remodeling bridges and roads, but in fact refers to the transition from conflict to peace by rebuilding the affected country’s, …
April 21, 2020
- Student Review
The Intersection of Poetry and U.S.-Mexican Border Affairs in Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s “Lima :: Limón”
Natalie Scenters-Zapico writes about her recounts. In a 2015 interview with Blue Mesa Review, when asked if she thinks of an ideal reader while writing, Scenters-Zapico, …
January 23, 2020
- Society & Culture
Gender Issues in Kurdistan
Historically, Kurdish women have struggled to make their voices heard. Indeed, in Kurdish, among many other languages, the word for voice—deng—is the same as that for vote.…
December 30, 2019
- Dialogues
Sheba Crocker on Humanitarian Aid in the 21st Century
GJIA: What has been the biggest obstacle in undertaking humanitarian missions across the world in the past few years? SC: It’s hard to pinpoint just one, but I would say there…
October 31, 2019
- Human Rights & Development
Pakistani Women’s Rights
Signs protestors made decried all forms of discrimination, from severe physical violence endured by rape survivors and honor killings to the unequal division of labor inside the…
June 18, 2019