Over the weekend, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 2018 peace prize would be jointly awarded to Dr Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to combat conflict-related sexual violence. In its announcement, …
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The gender scorecard Women in International Security has released its gender scorecard for foreign policy and international security think tanks in Washington DC, which reveals a high disparity between male and female staff members. The …
What’s so important about WPS? The fact that women make up at least half the population should be reason enough to include them in peace and security processes, but the ‘emphasis on women’ continues to …
In April this year, Australia hosted the inaugural ASEAN–Australia women, peace and security (WPS) dialogue, an initiative born out of the ASEAN–Australia special summit in March. Although Australia has been involved in regional peacekeeping operations …
Sexual violence in Myanmar Researchers at Monash University have compiled a new ‘Preventing mass sexual violence in Asia–Pacific’ dataset, which documents reports of sexual violence and gender-based violence across the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. …