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Gurmeet Kaur Article in Asian Studies Review Journal
- Intersecting Nation-Building and Gender Marginalisation: Tibetan Women in Exile and the Role of Governance in Body Politics, May 18 2025
Keri Culver - Blog
Astha Ramaiya Co-author Article in Journal of Adolescence
The article, led by Linnea Zimmerman examines how opportunity structures (parental influence and neighborhood context) affects individual agency among boys and girls in Kinshasa, DRC. We used longitudinal data to identify three distinct groups for boys and girls in each domain. Parental monitoring was associated with the development of both domains for boys, but showed no association for girls. Conversely, parental closeness was more strongly associated with development for girls, than for boys. Neighborhood safety was associated with greater Voice and Freedom of Movement for both boys and girls.
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Realignment of Gender Programmes During COVID-19
Most Countries would have started experiencing the effects of COVID-19 by March - April 2020. Millions of programme funding is assigned to gender-based violence (GBV) prevention globally. Reports have come out of several countries across continents observing an increase in GBV and child sexual abuse. Are there international, regional and national effects to collect, collate and assess the date and re-assign the funding where needed most or is it business as usual?
What is the Caribbean doing?
UN Women has launched a data hub for the Caribbean. https://caribbeanwomencount.unwomen.org/
There is also the Spotlight Initiative that is a global programme that seeks to address GBV. There is a Caribbean wide http://https://www.spotlightinitiative.org/
CARICOM and Caribbean governments need to consider a public, private partnership to help with addressing GBV, especially during COVID-19.
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