Religion and inclusion: Allies or enemies?
Nicolas Panotto, Argentine theologian, explores in this blog how religion and faith can be allies for the inclusion of LGBTQI+ people in the fight for human rights and against gender-based violence.
Faith, masculinity, and the fight against gender-based violence
Donna Nyadete explains the impactful work she leads at Trócaire Zimbabwe, engaging men through faith to challenge gender norms, question old assumptions, learn to recognise consent, and begin to see equality not as a threat but as a strength.
Carrying faith across borders: Supporting migrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking survivors through spiritually literate care
This blog post by Dr. Nana Afua Y. Brantuo explores how faith help migrants, refugeed and forcibly displaced people to cope with experiences of GBV and trafficking, highlighting the need to incorporate faith and religion in survivor-centred approaches.
Mitigating online violence against Women Human Rights Defenders
This blog post summarises the key mechanisms needed to address online violence against Women Human Rights Defenders. They were shared by a panel of experts from lawmakers to community leaders during the Session 3 of the TFGBV Policy Dialogues, organised by UN Women and SVRI's TFGBV CoP.
Exploring the intersection between gender-based violence, teenage pregnancy and HIV in Malawi
In the fourth blog of the Faith & GBV CoP series, Palikena Kaude explores the intersection between gender-based violence, teenage pregnancy and HIV in Malawi derived from limited socio-economic opportunities and restricted access to sexual and reproductive services.
Climate disasters, gendered care, and spiritual-cultural practices: Reflections from Pinetown, South Africa and Chimanimani, Zimbabwe
This blog post by Tendai Ganduri – the third of the Faith & GBV series – examines how climate disasters affect sexual freedoms and gender roles shaped by religious and traditional value systems, drawing on fieldwork from Chimanimani, Zimbabwe, and the Pinetown informal settlement in South Africa.
Actioning global standards on technology-facilitated gender-based violence: From commitments to implementation
The second session of the TFGBV Policy Dialogue Series, co-hosted by UN Women and the SVRI CoP on TFGBV, brought together governments, regulators, feminist activists, and researchers to tackle how to move from global commitments to effective national action that protects women and marginalised communities online?
Power within, power with and power to: A reflection on equity-centred partnerships for VAWG prevention
This blog by members of Womanity and the Center on Gender Equity and Health at the University of California San Diego explores how to create equitable partnerships for VAWG prevention.
Breaking the code: Understanding and confronting complicit masculinity
Nathan Msomi, member of WG1 of the Faith & GBV CoP, unpacks the ways in which men participate in and perpetuate gender-based violence through complicit masculinity — remaining silent while benefiting from male privilege.
Collateral conceptualisations of rape: A long history of sexual violence in Malawi, c.1860-1994
This blog post explores the history of sexual violence in Malawi and how custom, social norms, Christianity, and colonisation transformed the conceptualisation of rape, and therefore women's body autonomy and sexual rights, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
