The White House in Moscow that serves as the seat of the Russian parliament. Photo: Kirill Vinokurov, Flickr.
Of: Lisa Elamson and Maria Ricksten
The Istanbul Convention is a legal framework that seeks to prevent and combat violence against women. In Russia, where it is estimated that 14,000 women die every year as a result of domestic violence, the signing and ratification of the Convention is an urgent matter. But instead, last year Russia chose to decriminalize some forms of domestic violence.
December 10, 2018, Paper, English, Magazine
Demonstrations for the full decriminalization of sex work. Photo: WeArePlanC, 2018.
Of: Kathrin Hegger and Tessa Stockburger
Laws that prohibit the sex industry perpetuate gender-based violence. That is the opinion of Chantell Martin and Cameron Cox from the Sex Workers Outreach Project, SWOP, Australia.
December 10, 2018, Paper, English, Magazine
The civil society organization Partenariat Recherches Environnement Médias (PREM) is providing rural women with new opportunities to generate income and improve community life in the Katfoura village, Guinea. Photo: Joe Saade / UN Women, Flickr.
Of: Carolina Yang
Gender-based violence (GBV) refers to the denial of resources aside from physical or emotional abuse, according to the UN. Women in agriculture face GBV with regards to both disproportionate workload and limited access to land and resources compared to their male counterparts. It is therefore essential to recognize the contribution of female farmers, and to end the unequal access to resources.
December 10, 2018, Paper, English, Magazine
Recent developments in Indonesia are signaling a worrying trend concerning LGBTQ + rights in the country. Photo: Tony Webster, Flickr.
Of: Alexandra Håkansson
Individuals identifying with or belonging to the LGBTQ + community are under attack in Indonesia. Since 2015, the violence towards the LGBTQ + community has been on the rise. The violence has in many cases been sanctioned by the Indonesian state, who are further fueling hostile attitudes towards the community.
December 10, 2018, Paper, English, Magazine
Another missing and murdered indigenous women's march in Minnesota, 2017 Source: Flickr
Of: Louise Gripenberg and Maria Ricksten
In the beginning of October 2018, another march for indigenous rights was held in Montreal, Canada. Hundreds gathered to remind politicians and police officers of the missing and murdered indigenous women. Canada's long history of ethnic discrimination continues to echo today alongside the government's failure to address this structural violence.
October 26, 2018, Paper, English, Magazine
A Kichwa girl carrying her sack tumpline style near the Jondachi river in Ecuador.
Photo: Tomas Munita / CIFOR, Flickr.
Of: Johanna Caminati Engström and Lisa Elamson
In the last decade, progress has been made for the rights of the indigenous people of Ecuador. But despite a favorable legal context and numerous promises made by the government, their rights are still under threat by foreign economic interests.
October 26, 2018, Paper, English, Magazine
A woman from an agrarian indigenous community in Puente Viejo, Guatemala. Photo: Ryan Brown / UN Women, Flickr.
Of: Carolina Yang
In the field of agriculture where production is the major appeal, a lens from the indigenous perspectives provides opportunities to relieve the unprecedented environmental stress imposed by industrial agriculture. Rather than an over-simplified food system, sustainability will be more attainable if native wisdom is applied in celebration of diversity.
October 26, 2018, Paper, English, Magazine
Woman from the Mong Tribe in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand, drawing designs on a piece of cloth.
Photo: Justin Vidamo, Flickr.
Of: Alexandra Håkansson and Linda Sebbas
For the last decades UNESCO has been criticized for not tending to indigenous rights. The World Heritage convention has, despite its aim, resulted in devastating consequences for indigenous peoples. Signs of change in their work can be detected, but will it be enough?
October 26, 2018, Paper, English, Magazine
Indigenous women collecting grass for their cattle in Kathonibari, Kaziranga National Park.
Photo: Eleonora Fanari & Pranab Doley.
Of: Hanna Geschewski and Vittorio Capici
The loss of Indigenous peoples' natural resource base is often associated with rainforest clearing, dam projects and the mining industry. But it is not always the infamous multinational corporations that drive native peoples from their lands. Two examples from India and Alaska illustrate how public conservation policies and inter-indigenous conflicts threaten communities and identities.
October 26, 2018, Paper, English, Magazine
Of: Elin Fredriksson
26th of April, we had the pleasure to listen to Maja Sager, PhD and associate senior lecturer at the Department of Gender Studies in Lund, in a FUF-seminar in Lund. She talked about feminist perspectives on migration, which is her research focus. The key question of the seminar was: Why is it important to analyze […]
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June 4, 2018, Paper, English, FUF Lund, Magazine
