Gender-based violence

4 Minutes

Women and Gender World

“A world without violence is a woman’s right!”

PV November 27, 2024

By Mercedes Lima In March 1999, the United Nations recognized November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The date was chosen to remember the Mirabal sisters – Patria,...

3 Minutes

Women and Gender World

Sudanese women’s movement warns of “catastrophic humanitarian crisis” from war

PV January 11, 2024

On December 15, as the war in Sudan completed 8 months, thousands of women’s human rights defenders (WHRDs) were forced to flee the city of Wad Madani south of Khartoum. Rapid Support Forces (RSF)...

4 Minutes

Women and Gender

Thirty-one years after Montreal, reflecting on culturally sanctioned misogyny

PV December 5, 2020

On December 6, 1989, a male student shot and killed 14 women – 13 engineering students and one clerical worker – at the University of Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique. Fourteen other people were injured in...

7 Minutes

Labour Women and Gender

Demand a recovery plan for women!

PV September 1, 2020

Not one step further behind! The coronavirus pandemic coincided with forecasts of the coming economic recession. The combination, as we know, has been cataclysmic and both have had an overwhelmingly negative impact on women....