GSP Recommends: Issue 100

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@gendersecurityproject.com with your recommendation and we will make sure to review it, engage with it, and add it up to one of our forthcoming lists.

HEROINAT depicts an Albanian woman using 20,000 pins. Each pin represents a woman raped during the Kosovo War from 1998-1999. The pins are at different heights, creating a portrait in relief. The sculpture has a dual perspective, macro and micro. Viewed from a near perspective, the individual portrait medals are visible. Further away, the portrait appears.

On our desk

COVID 2nd Wave Driving Increased Violence Against Refugee Women & Girls - UNHCR (Read)

The U.N. Security Council Finally Considers Weighing In on Climate Security (Read)

How Digital Media is Threatening Women’s Rights and Democracy (Read)

Women play a critical role in diplomacy and security, so why aren’t more in positions of power? (Read)

Reports and Studies Ethiopia-Tigray - Brutal Human Rights Abuses Against Women & Girls (Read) Femicide Research - Killings of Women & Girls by Their Intimate Partner or Other Family Members (Read) Inclusive democratic participation, a tool for combating & preventing violent extremism (Read) Gender-Based Violence & Environmental Linkages - The Violence of Inequality (Read) Violence Against Women During COVID-19: Measuring the Shadow Pandemic (Read) News from around the world Afghanistan - Taliban Replace Women's Affairs Ministry with Vice & Virtue Department (Read) Egypt - Violence & Sexual Abuse of Women by Officials (Read) Honduras - Election of First Female President (Read) Slovakia - Government Apologizes for Illegal Sterilizations: Lawyer & Plenipotentiary for Romani Community Say Compensation Must Follow (Read)