Gender-based violence, or GBV, is harm perpetrated against a person’s will on the basis of their gender or gender characteristics. It is such a widespread global issue that 1 in 3 women have reported experiencing some form of gender-based violence. Gayatri Patel, Director of Gender Advocacy at CARE USA, talks to us about this universal issue. GBV can ... Show More
May 7
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This week, we're bringing you a special feed drop from Disrupting Peace, a podcast from the World Peace Foundation, which explores why peace hasn’t worked, and how it still could. In each episode, Bridget Conley, research director at the World Peace Foundation, speaks with a rese ... Show More
34m 3s
May 5
Abortion, Crisis Pregnancy Centers, and What Else to Watch in Indiana
Indiana was the first state to sign, pass, and enforce an abortion ban after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision, which went into effect in 2023 (Missouri saw immediate enforcement via a trigger ban). Now, almost everyone must leave the state t ... Show More
29m 14s
Apr 28
Care and Coverage: The Importance of Doulas and Medicaid in the U.S.
Doulas, a non-medical birth professional, provide emotional, physical and social support and guidance through different aspects of sexual and reproductive health-- including labor and delivery, the prenatal and postpartum period, and during abortion care, miscarriage, or stillbir ... Show More
39m 40s
Apr 2025
S4E3 Conflict-related Sexual Violence - Centering Survivors
Conflict zones are places of immense hardship - with people facing displacement, broken healthcare systems, and separation from families and communities. But when sexual violence is added to the equation, the challenges for survivors become even greater. Conflict-related sexual v ... Show More
38m 50s
Apr 2023
Kaitlin Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller, "Inequality across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
In the United States, one in four women will be victims of domestic violence each year. Despite the passage of federal legislation on violence against women beginning in 1994, differences persist across states in how domestic violence is addressed. Kaitlin Sidorsky and Wendy J. S ... Show More
49m 49s
Sep 2023
Tiantian Zheng, "Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Based on ethnographic research with victims of intimate partner violence since 2014, Tiantian Zheng's Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China (Bloomsbury, 2022) brings to the forefront women's experiences of, negoti ... Show More
23m 48s
Dec 2022
Violences conjugales, banalité du mâle
<p><strong>Isolement, humiliation, inversion de la culpabilité, intimidation, impunité : dans les violences de couple, les stratégies de l’agresseur se déploient dans le quotidien le plus ordinaire.</strong> Que ce soit dans le cadre de la vie domestique, dans la chambre à couche ... Show More
59m 5s
Sep 2022
The Impact of Coercive Control on Children: How To Recover & Become Happy After A Controlling & Abusive Relationship, with Emma Katz
Send us Fan MailDr Emma Katz, Ph.D., is an internationally-renowned expert in domestic abuse and coercive control, whose work has influenced legislation in the UK and overseas.Coercive control is a form of domestic abuse where perpetrators use a pattern of threats, humiliation or ... Show More
55m 2s
May 2024
Ep 185: Australia: The Bondi Junction Mass Murder, Femicide and Male Violence with Lauren Trevan, Part 1
Laura interviews Australian author and advocate Lauren Trevan about the national crises of men killing women and her book Now I See You.
We recorded this episode just after the horrific Bondi attack by Joel Cauchi on April 13 2024, where he stabbed 18 people including a nine-mon ... Show More
53m 12s