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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 out of a doorway or a dark alley.…
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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 has even called it one of the five…
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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 that cuts across cultures, income levels, and geographies.…
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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 is, water, air, fire, migratory birds and beasts,…