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‘”Because I am a man, I should be gentle to my wife and my children”: positive masculinity to stop gender-based violence in a coastal district in Vietnam’

Academic article that explores the pilot project , the Responsible Men Club, developed and implemented in a coastal district in Vietnam from 2010 to 2012 to work with men to stop domestic violence. Through men’s empowerment and peer support, the project aimed to construct and encourage a positive, non-violence version of masculinity.

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Violence, gender and WASH: spurring action on a complex, under-documented and sensitive topic

Academic article that provides a review of the existing evidence and practice on the intersection of gender, violence and WASH. It argues that there is a need for more systematic, reliable, and ethically conducted monitoring and learning on this topic to build a more solid evidence base, improved policy and programming.

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Fishing for justice: Human rights, development, and fisheries sector reform

Academic article highlighting human rights abuses, including forced evictions, detention without trial, child labour, forced labour and unsafe working conditions, and violence and personal security, including gender-based violence (GBV), as key areas of concern in fishing communities in India, the Philippines, Cambodia and South Africa.

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Perceived impact of a land and property rights program on violence against women in rural Kenya: A qualitative investigation

Academic article focusing on a community-led land and property rights program in two rural provinces in western Kenya, designed to respond to women’s property rights violations and to reduce violence against women and HIV risks at the community level.

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Women’s land ownership and relationship power: A mixed methods approach to understanding structural inequities and violence against women

Academic article that examines novel approaches taken by women in Nicaragua and Tanzania, regions where owning land is a marker of dominance. Findings suggest that when women own land, they gain power within their relationships and are less likely to experience domestic violence.

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“She mixes her business”: HIV transmission and acquisition risks among female migrants in western Kenya

Academic article aimed at characterizing the contexts and processes that may facilitate HIV acquisition and transmission among migrant women in the Kisumu area of Nyanza Province, Kenya. Fish trade is identified as one of the sectors in which many migrants engage in transactional sex.

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Agency, power and personhood: discourses of gender and violence in a fishing community in South India

Academic article examining the prevalence of domestic violence in a fishing community in Kerala, south India. It arguments that understanding violence requires the understanding of local ideas of gender, personhood and agency. These local understandings rarely blame men and have recently focused on alcohol as the root of the problem.

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Women and fish-for-sex: Transactional sex, HIV/AIDS and gender in African fisheries

This academic article analyzes the phenomenon of fish-for-sex in small-scale fisheries and discusses its apparent links to HIV/AIDS and transactional sex practices. The analysis outlines the many different and complex dimensions of fish-for-sex transactions and concludes with a set of recommendations.

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Research, action and policy: Addressing the gendered impacts of climate change

Book on gender and climate change research and action. Divided in five parts, it discusses the gendered impacts of climate change, gender justice, gender mainstreaming within climate policy, gendered climate change actions and gender and climate change research. It presents voices of women from every continent and from different climate events and challenges. Linkages between gender-based violence (GBV) and climate change are identified in some of the chapters.

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Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs launch court challenge to coastal gasLink pipeline’s environmental approval

Press release from the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs on the filling of an application for a Judicial Review of the British Columbia Environmental Assessment Office decision to extend the environmental certificate for Coastal GasLink’s proposed fracked gas pipeline for another five years. One of the reasons is the demonstrated direct link between extractive industries and an increase in violence against indigenous women.

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Episode 54: ‘Damien on the Akashinga or “the brave ones” – an all female anti-poaching unit

Podcast interview with Damien Mander, an anti-poaching activist and founder of the International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF) and of the Akashinga or “The Brave Ones,” an all female anti-poaching unit.

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