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By Buena Bernal
The literature is vast: gender inequality exists.
Anyone who denies, ignores or lives blind to this reality is helping make matters worse.
Let’s get the facts straight.
New data collated by the Alliance 8.7 and released during the United Nations General Assembly in September 2017 show women and girls account for 71% of the world’s enslaved. They are 99% of forced labor victims in the commercial sex industry and 84% of victims of forced marriages. [1]
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DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY (SOUTH AFRICA) CAMPAIGN
The Africa Regional Seminar on Ending Violence based on real or perceived Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity [SOGI]
SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLKIT
Hi and welcome to the Demand Accountability (South Africa) Campaign!
This toolkit will help you, your organisation and your friends and allies understand WHY we are running this campaign and also importantly HOW you can get involved.
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Book Review by Christianne F. Collantes, Isis International
Gender teachers and researchers rely upon libraries and archives "memory institutions" that have been organized and built within patriarchal frameworks. This has prompted the question: What types of information have been historically marginalized, omitted, and muted from our histories?
"Teaching Gender with Libraries and Archives" (2014), edited by Sara de Jong and Sanne Koevoets, urges us to reconsider our own roles as teachers, learners, and advocates of Gender Studies by looking at how our archives have traditionally been organized in ways that have excluded women's experiences, and also their potential to strengthen our varied, collective knowledge about women's histories, lives, and achievements. This volume applies feminist and cultural theories to real world applications of archiving and librarianship. The text offers exhaustive theoretical discussions on the concerns of knowledge dissemination and organization, then provides tangible, historical, and even contemporary case studies that demonstrate how these concerns manifest themselves in our libraries. Divided into three sections, De Jong and Koevoets' volume cohesively lays out a readable and well arranged investigation of the systems of discourse and archiving that have been crucial towards (and reflective of) our understanding of gender and women's histories.
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Palestine: The Safe Birth Project
The Problem
Israeli-imposed restrictions on Palestinians' freedom of movement, coupled with intermittent military attacks, threaten the rights and well-being of Palestinian women, with particular consequences to women's reproductive health.
The Israeli military has destroyed or barricaded thousands of roads in the West Bank, making it difficult for Palestinian women who are in labor to reach hospitals.
Ambulances are regularly detained by soldiers at checkpoints. As a result, dozens of Palestinian women have been forced to give birth at Israeli military checkpoints, resulting in the deaths of 20 women and 36 infants.
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By Jasmin Nario-Galace
Approximately 1,000 people die every day from gun violence, with people from the developing world being twice as likely to die from it as those from the industrialized world.(1) Each day, an estimated 3,000 people are left severely injured by guns, i.e. three for every person killed.(2) In the Philippines, from January to September 2009, there were 7,114 murder and homicide cases. If 78.8% of murders and homicides are committed with the aid of a gun, as the police roughly estimate, that would mean that 21 people are killed by guns in the Philippines on a daily basis.
Take Back the Tech! campaign focusing on transparency on violence against women through social media
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week beginning 21 July
The campaign kit can be accessed on our homepage in English, French and Spanish.
In addition, we would like to share with you a Google doc full of tweets, posts and contact information for various executives and departments of Facebook, Twitter and Google (for YouTube): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DMN5FkRbHgSiRFjcVE8WfplWWm-f9o_uecp8je5aYtE/edit#gid=1693114217
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