Challenging Global Gender Violence

Heteropatriarchy Kills: Challenging Gender Violence in a Prison Nation

We need an analysis that furthers neither the conservative project of sequestering millions of men of color in accordance with the contemporary dictates of globalized capital and its prison industrial complex, nor the equally conservative project of abandoning poor women of color to a continuum of violence that extends from the sweatshops through the prisons, to shelters, and into bedrooms at h...

A global overview of gender-based violence.

This paper provides an overview of the extent and nature of gender-based violence and its health consequences, particularly on sexual and reproductive health.

Decriminalisation of gender-based violence is a global health problem

Mannell J, Hawkes S. BMJ Glob Health 2017;2:e000438. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000438 IntroductIon In July 2017 the member states of the United Nations (UN) came together to review progress towards six of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including goal 3 (health) and goal 5 (gender equality). The targets within goal 5 are broad and ambitious, incorporating a commitment to ‘end all forms o...

Challenging Conventional Wisdom & Gender Work

Beyond ‘Anti-Smacking’: Challenging parental violence

The anti-smacking lobby concentrates on persuading parents not to smack, and the government to prohibit smacking by law. There is much evidence that smacking children is unnecessary and dangerous, and yet smacking continues to be widely practised and accepted in Britain. Our literature review found two underlying reasons for this contradiction: beliefs that children are pre-human becomings rath...