GSP Recommends: Issue 47
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.
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On our desk
Dissolving Interagency Silos: The WPS Agenda on the Disaster-Conflict Continuum (Read)
Colombia Reaping Gains of Peace Process Yet Reintegration of Ex-combatants Still Work in Progress, Special Representative Tells Security Council (SC/14325) (Read)
Into the light: Nation's first memorial to survivors of sexual violence (Read) As #MeToo turns three, founder launches platform to fight sexual violence, hopes to reach more women (Read) Landmark sexual abuse case a ‘beacon of hope’ for other victims (Read) Sexual Violence Centre Cork founder: 'During lockdown people were raped by those that they knew' (Read) PEACETALK: Increasing Female Filipino Peacekeepers and the WPS Agenda (Read)
Peace Building: el-Rufai’s Wife Inaugurate Kaduna Women Peace Council (Read) U.N. says pandemic will slow already miniscule progress in women's rights (Read) ‘Peace, security exist with freedom of choice, expression’ (Read)
Reports and Studies
Interlinkages Between Trafficking in Persons & Marriage (Read) Gender Equality in the Context of Economic & Climate Justice (Read) Global Rapid Gender Analysis for COVID-19 (Read) Trafficking in Women & Girls - Report of the UN SG 2020: Conclusions & Recommendations (Read) News from around the world Afghanistan - Women in Afghan Security Forces Fear Job Loss Amid Peace Talks (Read) Afghanistan - Women May Be Forced to Have "Virginity Tests" (Read) Bangladesh - To tackle sexual violence in Bangladesh the culture of victim blaming must end (Read) Colombia - From Words to Action: The experience of UN Special Political Missions in Colombia on Women, Peace and Security (Read) Egypt - Accelerate Issuance of Domestic Violence Law, as When Women File DV Report With Police, Husbands Often File Report Against the Wife (Read) Nepal - New Laws to Deter & Punish Acid Attacks - Activists Call for Monitoring & Implementation (Read) North Korea detainees subjected to ritual torture and sexual assault – rights group (Read) Spain - Government Will Now Fine Companies That Don't Reveal Gender Pay Gap Data (Read) Turkey - Femicide on the Rise Amidst Debate over EU Istanbul Convention on VAW (Read) Yemen - UN envoy urges all parties to Yemen conflict to protect women from violence (Read)