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Deconstructing Power: The Global Prevalence of Gender Violence

• May 19, 2018

In scriptures, poetry, constitutions and leaders’ pledges to protect all members of the state, women are often listed with children or others rendered “vulnerable” by circumstance. The woman citizen is imagined as less adult. Is it possible that vocabularies that consider women as objects make a quiet argument that the assault on our person …

Africa, Gender Violence, Women

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Russ Feingold on Congo: First, End the Conflict

Ryan Villarreal

• April 6, 2014

Last year marked major progress toward finding a peaceful resolution for the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s achingly long conflict, rooted in decades of civil war, regional incursions, ethnic tensions and resource pilfering. Throughout the many years, women have borne the brunt of the fighting, caught in the crossfire between rival militias and governments …

Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights

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