Feb 23, 2024 | Asia, Featured
Part II: Navigating International Legal Challenges: Filipinos Seeking Divorce Abroad, International Law Violations, and Progress in Domestic Legal Reform By Vayuna Gupta The first part of this article highlighted the absence of a legal provision for absolute divorce...
Jan 19, 2024 | Asia, Featured
Part I: Unveiling the Silent Struggle: Examining the Absence of Divorce on Victims of Domestic Violence in the Philippines by Vayuna Gupta Legal provisions allowing for divorce are important for married survivors of domestic violence in their attempts to get out of a...
Jul 25, 2023 | Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
By Sophia Kulow For much of the public, it is common to associate gender-based violence with only physical violence or visible discrimination against women and girls. However, slow violence, characterized as gradual and not necessarily visible, can be just as...
Jul 14, 2023 | How We Work, Asia
By Laura Williams I’m convinced that our work in the Philippines will be a force multiplier for ending gender-based violence because of the energy, optimism and commitment we are seeing among the local activists as they make the shift from individual to systemic...
May 22, 2023 | Asia, Featured
By Sophia Kulow Japan’s Cabinet recently approved a bill that would acknowledge sexual violence even without physical violence or coercion,while also raising the age of consent from 13 to 16. Sexual violence is any unwanted sexual activity, with perpetrators using...
Nov 6, 2020 | How We Work, Asia, Featured
New Domestic Violence Support Network in India By Patricia Cumbie, Communications Manager November 6, 2020 On a recent evening in Maharashtra, India, a group of women from the community met to envision new solutions to a very old problem: gender based violence....
