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NEW: Civil Society Declaration on Sexual Violence

Read the recent Civil Society Declaration on Sexual Violence here ...
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Newly Published! Nigeria Country Report

By Dr. Lawan Balami, Asma’u Mustapha and Dr. Judith-Ann Walker
Data collected from June to August 2017.  Date: August 2019 ...
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Fragments of Memory Exhibition

Fragments of Memory Exhibition
Artistic Representations of Diaspora Lives Opening, October 8th
(3:00pm – 5:00pm)
York University Keele Campus
305 ...
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New CSiW team members!

We are pleased to introduce four students who have recently jointed our team: Janelle Curry (first on the left) is ...
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Sexual slavery, forced marriage, conjugal slavery: problems around collecting the voices of the victims

Gaëlle Breton-Le Goff Courts distort the voices of victims in various ways, making it difficult to piece together the truth. ...
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Research as more than extraction? Knowledge production and gender-based violence in African conflicts

By Annie Bunting and Joel Quirk Researching gender-based violence in African conflicts is ethically treacherous. A new series looks at ...
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Landmark Resolution Still Being Held Back

By Heather Tasker The United Nations Security Council passed the 9thresolution on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), UNSCR 2467, on ...
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Two York scholars to receive Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships

May 20, 2019 York University graduate students Melchisedek Chétima (history) and Sylvie Bodineau (anthropology) have been named among this year’s recipients ...
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Julienne Lusenge, la militante congolaise qui veut arrêter les viols

Available in French only 27 février 2019 La présidente de l’Association Solidarités des femmes pour la paix et le développement ...
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Managing life after war: how young people in Uganda are coping

By Teddy Atim For over two decades between 1986 and 2006, northern Uganda experienced a prolonged conflict pitting government forces ...
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