GSP Recommends: Issue 23
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.
Featured Image: A protester holding a flyer with the words “Gender is like that old jumper from my cousin. It was given to me and it doesn’t fit” at a rally for transgender equality in Washington D.C. in 2013 | Wikimedia Commons
On our desk
How We Can Reduce Gender-Based Violence During COVID-19 (Read)
Women mobilize to prevent COVID-19 in crowded Rohingya refugee camps (Read)
Boots to provide help for domestic abuse victims (Read)
Violence Against Women and Girls Pandemic and Gendered Dimension of COVID-19 (Read)
How to exist in a world that seeks to erase women (Read)
Why gender-sensitive social protection is critical to the COVID-19 response in low- and middle-income countries (Read)
Tracking Attitudes on Gender Equality (Read)
Poverty, Women, & COVID-19 (Read)
#SIGNAL FOR HELP – Hand Motion Signal Lifeline for Women Victims of Violence (Read)
Keeping Children Safe Online During Lockdown (Read)
Africa – A Guide to Protect African Women’s Rights During COVID-19 (Read)
“Double Casualties” of COVID-19 – Gender (Read)
For Arab Women & Girls, The Crisis May Be Just Beginning (Read)
Confronting Sexual Harassment – Analysis (Read)
Reports and Studies
Gender Dimensions of the COVID-19 Pandemic – World Bank (Read)
From Crisis to a New Social Compact – Migrant Women (Read)
Egypt – Measures to Support Women in the COVID-19 Pandemic (Read)
Online & ICT Facilitated Violence Against Women & Girls During COVID-19 (Read)
COVID-19 & Child, Early & Forced Marriage (Read)
News from around the world
Turkey – Rising Domestic Violence & Femicide During the COVID-19 Lockdown Period +”We Will Stop Femicide” Platform (Read)
Staying at Home Is Dangerous for Many Women (Read)
Kenya Activists Fear Spike in Violence Against Women During Coronavirus (Read)
Latin America – Impact of COVID-19 on (Online) Court Hearings for Gender-Based Cases (Read)
Arab Region – International Workers’ Day : May 1 – Feminist Lens (Read)
Afghanistan – Women & Girls with Disabilities Face Systemic Abuse (Read)
Watch and Listen
North Korea – Millennial Generation – Video – Gender (Watch)
Filia Meets: Simi Kamal (Listen)