Safety by design, online content moderation & community management
This blog summarises the fifth session of the TFGBV Policy Dialogues which identified key insights, practical mechanisms to ensure safety by design, and the main challenges ahead.
Engaging the manosphere to prevent technology-facilitated gender-based violence
The fourth session of the Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence Policy Dialogue Series co-organized by UN Women and SVRI’s TFGBV Community of Practice, examined how to engage the manosphere, a sprawling, heterogeneous set of online communities shaping ideas about masculinity, gender, and power, and what it takes to tackle misogyny across the online-offline continuum.
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.
