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Written by Tanushree Soni (Oxfam), Tomoko Honda (Monash University), Sarah Homan (The Equality Institute), and Loksee Leung (The Equality Institute)

The Solomon Islands consists of over 900 tropical islands and atolls, spread across 28,400 square kilometres of the South Pacific. The country has a rich and complex political and cultural history.

Written by Lisa Aronson Fontes

Domestic abusers often entrap their future victims with intense romance. 

[Photo: YTH.org]

Written by Jaclyn Shea, MPH

“At 12 I experienced a drunken man touching me…. When creating the illustrations for the app I imagined I was talking to that young girl,”

~ Monica Andino, Honduran Illustrator

[Photo 1: participants during a girls' workshop; Photo 2: Boys creating messages. Photos by YTH]

Written by Emma Schlamm and Jaclyn Shea

“It is not easy to be a girl in Honduras…” 16-year-old girl, Tegucigalpa

[Photo Credit: Ali Express]

#16DaysofActivism 2018 Blog Series

Written by Elizabeth Dartnall, SVRI and Anik Gevers, Independent Consultant

This was first published by Reproductive Health Matters. Permission to publish on the SVRI Blog was given by the authors.

The SVRI

 

[The winning Development Marketplace 2018 proposal from Fundación Plan International España examines the long-term impacts of an empowerment training on gender-based violence, and household energy use in humanitarian settings. Photo © Fundación Plan International España]

#16DaysofActivism 2018 Blog Series

Written by Diana J. Arango 1 and  Elizabeth Dartnall 2

[Photo by CHDC, Makerere University]

#16DaysofActivism 2018 Blog Series

Written by Carolyn Namutebi1, Godfrey Siu 1 and Daniel Wight 2

Child Health & Dev Centre, Makerere University1; MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Uni of Glasgow 2

[Photo by Raising Voices]

#16DaysofActivism 2018 Blog Series

Written by the Community for Understanding Scale Up (CUSP)

“Working with CUSP has reaffirmed my conviction that more than scaling specific initiatives/programs, it’s vital to scale the conceptual and methodological principles behind effective work — and that includes strengthening local capacity”- Amy Bank, Puntos de Encuentro 

[Photo 1: Class learning about Kyrgyz Indigo, a local organization addressing LGBT+ issues]

#16DaysofActivism 2018 Blog Series

Written by Dr Elena Kim 1 and Dr Frank G. Karioris 2

American University of Central Asia 1; University of Pittsburgh 2

[Photo Credit: Maureen Murphy]

#16DaysofActivism 2018 Blog Series

Written by Manuel Contreras-Urbina 1 and Sylvia Atieno Owino 2

Global Women’s Institute at the George Washington University 1; Send a Cow Kenya 2

Foto cortesía de la Asociación GOJoven Honduras

#16DaysofActivism 2018 Blog Series

Written by Jaclyn Shea, MPH

#16DaysofActivism 2018 Blog Series

Written by Morma Moremi, Elizabeth Dartnall and Laura Fitzhenry[i],  Sexual Violence Research Initiative

WBG/SVRI Development Marketplace 2018 winner Equal Access International aims to minimize the gap in evidence on the diffusion of gender norms in low-income settings in Nepal. Photo © Nirmal Rijal/Equal Access International
 

#16DaysofActivism 2018 Blog Series

Diana J. Arango 1 and  Elizabeth Dartnall 2

Written by Anik Gevers, Koh Miyaoi, Sangay Wangmo and Tashi Choden  

Stakeholders Commit to Partnerships to Address GBV

Experiences and scenes of domestic violence are often accepted as a regular feature of everyday life in a household. Increasingly, national prevalence data are being collected in different countries and the extent of this and other types of gender-based violence is coming to light.

[Photo by: Shutterstock]

Written by Lisa Aronson Fontes

This was first published by domesticshelters.org. Permission to publish on the SVRI Blog was given by the author.

[Photo by: domesticshelters.org]

Written by Lisa Aronson Fontes

This was first published by domesticshelters.org. Permission to publish on the SVRI Blog was given by the author.

[Photo by: The Equality Institute. Dr Emma Fulu presenting at the Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum 2017 Opening Plenary]

Written by Dr. Emma Fulu, Founder and Director of the Equality Institute

This was first published by The Equality Institute

[Photo by Berthe Morisot]

Written by Rachel Davis, Lisa Fujie Parks, and Alisha Somji, Prevention Institute

This was first published by Prevention Institute. Permission to publish on the SVRI Blog was given by the authors.

Written by Lisa Aronson Fontes

This was first published by Psychology Today. Permission to publish on the SVRI Blog was given by the author.

[Photo: Sonke Gender Justice]

By Donna Evans, Policy Development & Advocacy Unit, Sonke Gender Justice (Donna is a professional volunteer (lawyer) whose placement is funded through the Australian Volunteers Program). 

Sex Work and the Law in South Africa

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