GSP Recommends: Issue 62
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.
Women in India Protest the Mathura Rape case demanding a review of the judgement that acquitted the accused. Image courtesy of Keystone/Getty Images/File
On our desk
The UN pledged to tackle sexual harassment. The work remains incomplete, experts say (Read) A call to end gender-based violence in the military (Read) Between international ambitions and domestic realities — India’s involvement with the Women, Peace and Security Agenda (Read) UN Women: Listen to female voices in Myanmar (Read) Women's Property Rights Are the Key to Economic Development (Read) How to Do a Gender Analysis: Practical Guidance for the UN Community (Read) Recession with a Difference: Women Face Special Burdens (Read) Sexual violence against children being used as a ‘weapon’ of war (Read) Promoting peace and protecting women’s rights in contexts affected by violent extremism, especially during COVID-19 pandemic (Read) A feminist approach to strengthening global democracy (Read) Reports and Studies Women, Business & The Law – World Bank (Read) A Passage to Justice: Selected Yemeni Civil Society Views for Transitional Justice and Long-Term Accountability in Yemen (Read) UN Peacekeeping Operations and Gendered Threats to the Protection of Civilians (Read) ‘More spent on arms & security than women matters’ (Read) Every Step Counts - 7 Personal Testimonies of Social Democratic Women's Activism in South East Europe (Read) News from around the world Afghanistan - Afghanistan - With Pandemic, Increase in Gender Based Violence, Food Insecurity & Need for Women's Support Services (Read) Bangladesh - Culture of Misogyny & Masculine Impunity Driving Sexual Violence (Read) Burkina Faso - Women fleeing Burkina Faso violence face sexual assault (Read) CAR - ‘Our village is completely destroyed’: Displaced Central Africans recount rapes and disappearances (Read) Chile - Why Chile’s New Constitution Is a Feminist Victory (Read) Latvia - The Implementation of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda in Latvia: Room for Improvement? (Read) Liberia - Deputy Speaker Supports War Criminal Trials in Liberia But Wants Infrastructure, Legal Processes to be Setup (Read) Nepal - Broken promises (Read) South Sudan - Changing the Calculus to Support Peace in South Sudan (Read) Sri Lanka - A Catalogue of Suffering Behind the Calls for Action on Sri Lanka’s War Crimes (Read) USA - Women, Peace, and Security: Is DOD Turning a Human Rights Corner? (Read) Yemen - Peace in Yemen, But not Without Women’s Role in Peacebuilding (Read)