GSP Recommends: Issue 0

GSP Recommends is a weekly round up of news, reports, recommended readings, videos and podcasts from our desk to yours. If you think something should be up here but isn’t, do write to us on info@redelephantfoundation.org with your recommendation and we will make sure to review it, engage with it, and add it up to one of our forthcoming lists.

On our desk

1. “Why an Intersectional Approach to Women’s Peace & Security Agenda Is Important” (Read) 

2. “I fear for Gaza’s children” (Read)

3. “She survived internment in China and made it to Virginia. Will the U.S. let her stay?” (Read)

4. “What the queer community brings to the fight for climate justice” (Read)

5. “Female footballers deserve a fair deal. That’s why we went on strike” (Read) 

6. “To Survive Climate Catastrophe, Look to Queer and Disabled Folks” (Read) 

Reports and Studies

1. LGBT travel index puts Sweden top, and warns against some popular destinations (Read) 

2. Turning Women, Peace & Security Commitments to Implementation: 10 Steps (GAPS-UK) (Read)

3. Combating Sexual & Gender-Based Violence in Refugee Crises: Syrian Women Refugees in Kurdistan Iraq (Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights) (Read) 

News from around the world

Here is a weekly round up of news centered on gender and security world over. 

1. First-Ever Conference on Violence Against Women by Zambian Men (Read) 

2. #RespetoNaman movement launches campaign vs gender-based violence (Read) 

3. Using numbers to fight gender-based violence (Read)

4. Academics support ‘social,’ not medical gender recognition (Read)  

Watch and Listen

1. A Call for the Total End of Rape: UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (Watch)

2. Women, Climate Change, and Disasters in the Pacific (Listen)

3. Why we need a feminist funding ecosystem (Listen)  

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