GSP Recommends: Issue 31
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.
On our desk
How Beijing Shaped 25 Years of Feminist Activism: The Journey Began in 1995 (Read)
Trans rights: government reported to be dropping gender self-identifying plans (Read)
Gender-Based Discrimination & Women in Conflict with the Law (Read)
COVID-19 Exposes the Harsh Realities of Gender Inequality in Slums (Read)
Reinvigorating the Gender Revolution (Read)
Wanted: A Feminist Lens on Climate Action (Read)
Transforming Counter-Terrorism: From Securitization to Women-Led Peace (Read)
Reports and Studies
COVID-19: A Backward Step for Gender Equality – Analysis (Read)
91 Percent of LGBTQ+ Teens Are Bullied in Trump’s America (Read)
Trafficking in Persons – Study Analyzes Over 300 Anti-Trafficking Tech Tools (Read)
Combating Intolerance, Negative Stereotyping, Discrimination, Violence, Based on Religion or Belief – Gender (Read)
How to Promote a Gender-Responsive Participation Revolution in Humanitarian Settings (Read)
News from around the world
Afghanistan – Uncertain futures for “Daesh Wives” (Read)
Arab Region – COVID-19 & Its Impact on Women (Read)
India – ‘Same sex couples can live together’: Uttarakhand HC (Read)
India – LGBTQ+ community face domestic violence and pressure to ‘convert’ (Read)
India – Coronavirus lockdown ‘lonely’ and ‘dangerous’ for LGBTQ Indians (Read)
Iran – Implementation of Law Allowing Women to Pass Their Nationality to Their Children (Read)
Nigeria – The All -Women Law Firm Helping Women Prisoners Get Justice (Read)
Russia – Same-sex couple receive tax deduction as LGBT activist proves Russian marriages conducted abroad are valid in Russia (Read)
Switzerland – One Year after Women’s Strike & March, Swiss Women Demand More Updated Legal Protection Against Sexual Violence Inbox (Read)
US – US Supreme Court backs protection for LGBT workers (Read)
US – 17 corrections officers will be disciplined over the death of Layleen Polanco, a trans woman who died in solitary confinement (Read)
US – Navajo Nation Celebrates Diné Pride and Commits to Further Progress (Read)