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Who Commits Sexual Violence? The Myth of the Stranger
Three Decades of Data vs the Persistent “Stranger-Danger” Image Robbery vs Rape – most people see a stranger: someone stepping…
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Women’s Work and the Risk of Backlash: When Labor Markets Collide with Domestic Violence
Around the world, expanding women’s access to work is a cornerstone of gender equality and economic development. The World Bank…
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Cash Transfers and Safer Homes: Can Money Reduce Intimate Partner Violence?
Around the world, millions of women face the threat of violence from their intimate partners — a form of abuse…
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What is Gender-Based Violence?
Few things in this world are unacquainted with boundaries – national, international, or otherwise – the natural elements – that…
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Calm Surrender
When the brook murmursIts unsung melodiesPermeates softly into my veinsI hear the trees whisper in my earsUntold stories of lovers…
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I am who I am
Echoes of old memoriesConjured forth by the mind— The most adept alchemistLike the magic of some wicked sorcery Suspends me in…
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Letting Go
The waterfall cascaded down Rushing towards the ground beneathAs though it had suddenly realizedThat letting go is the way to peace. …
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Nothing Lasts Forever
Nothing lasts forever and all things come to an end – good or bad. This adage brings hope when times…
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What Would I Be?
What would I be if I hadn’t been hurt? What would I be without the scars?Would I ever know the truth?Would…
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Paradox
“You and I Are the creation and the destructionYou and IAre everything and nothingYou and I Are eternal and ephemeralYou and I Are…