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.
In the first blog of the Faith & GBV CoP series, Lucy Pearl Khofi draws on her experience as a church leader, preacher and survivor to confront uncomfortable truths about how religious spaces have silenced women’s voices and experiences of violence.
This blog post summarises the first session of the TFGBV Policy Dialogue Series by UN Women & SVRI, which focused on aligning global standards and commitments on TFGBV.
In this blog, SVRI Technical Advisor KL Dunkle shares key lessons on how to centre inclusion throughout the process, from forming diverse advisory groups to designing accessible surveys. A must-read for anyone planning an equitable RPS.
This blog by Joan Njagi takes you behind the scenes of a groundbreaking effort to co-create a more inclusive, survivor-centred global research agenda on child sexual violence.
This blog by UNICEF's Caroline Masboungi and Lara Quarterman challenges how we talk about online misogyny and radicalisation, urging us not to erase the voices of girls harmed by gender-based violence.
This personal reflection by Tulasha Khadka shares how attending SVRI Forum 2024 as a Young Professionals Programme awardee became a transformative journey of healing, self-acceptance, and empowerment.
The magic sauce to ending violence is collective power. Joy Watson narrates her experience at the SVRI Forum 2024. She realises that connections that restores, renews, and reminds us who we are is what keeps us going and resisting, together.
In this blog, CO-LAB and ProSociedad–SVRI Grant Partners 2024–explain the successful implementation of the CORE Model, a therapeutic intervention to change the behaviour of men who have used violence in intimate relationships, through the José's story of change.
This blog post summarises five key learnings on building equitable partnerships for intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention based on the project Impact at Scale with our Sri Lanka partners.
