Eliminating violence against women

Author: Rachel Volgestein

In: Council on Foreign Relations, 2017

On the week marking the United Nations Sixteen Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, Council on Foreign Relations published a link featuring six publications from the Women and Foreign Policy Program. The publications are:

- CFR Discussion Paper: Countering Sexual Violence in Conflict (Include PDF);

- ‘Sexual harassment and gender-based violence in the workplace’ (http://fortune.com/2017/11/17/sexual-harassment-legal-gaps/);

- ‘Rape as a tactic of terror’ (https://www.cfr.org/event/countering-human-trafficking-and-sexual-violence-conflict) inclusive of a discussion with human rights activist, Yazidi survivor to ISIS’ sexual slavery and 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Nadia Murad. The link provides both the video and its script);

- ‘The economic costs of violence against women’ (https://www.cfr.org/report/closing-gender-gap-development-financing);

- ‘Ending gender-based violence in conflict’ (https://www.cfr.org/blog/its-time-end-gender-based-violence-conflict);

- ‘Addressing gender-based violence in peace agreements’ (Link not retrievable).

Available online at:

https://www.cfr.org/blog/eliminating-violence-against-women

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