GSP Recommends: Issue 50

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.

Image: Qiu Jin was a Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer. Her courtesy names are Xuanqing and Jingxiong. Qiu was executed after a failed uprising against the Qing dynasty, and she is considered a national heroine in China; a martyr of republicanism and feminism. Image: Creative Commons

On our desk

The women, peace and security update (Read)

A Syrian Perspective on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon: What Lessons to Be Learnt? (Read)

We finally need to involve women to build lasting peace (Read)

Women and girls bear brunt of Africa 'transport poverty' (Read) 20 Years on sees Launch of International Women's Peace Centre in Windhoek (Read) Elzanne Bester: Nanaia Mahuta paves the way for women in foreign policy (Read)

Policy, Guns and Money: US election, economic coercion and women in peacekeeping (Read)

Does the US need to pursue transitional justice in the post-Trump era? (Read)

When I Step Outside, I Step Into a Country of Men Who Stare (Read)

EndSARS, women, peace and security (Read)

The Women Activists Rejecting Biden’s Pro-War “Feminism” (Read)

Women are equal partners in peace and security (Read)

Reports and Studies Re-Value the Importance of Care in Society & Amidst COVID-19 - Gender (Read) New Policy Brief by Kristin Lund: Reflections from the First Female Force Commander in UN History (Read) News from around the world Nicaragua - Compounded Crises for Women, of Devastating Hurricane Iota, The Pandemic, Political Unrest, Poverty (Read) Serbian Artist’s Exhibition Explores Cover-Up of Kosovo Massacres (Read) UAE - UAE enhances women's role in post-conflict reconstruction (Read) USA - Trans women in Ice custody already suffered sexual harassment and abuse. Then came Covid-19 (Read) Yemen - Displaced Mothers Try to Protect Their Families Amidst Humanitarian Emergency (Read)