Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and Violence is an open access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing original articles related to dignity, sexual exploitation, and violence. Current Issue: Volume 2, Issue 1 (2017) Editor-in-Chief - Donna M Hughes Editorials PDF Women, Migration, and Prostitution . Learn More
Tanzania – National Survey on Child Marriage
Students at a primary school in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Married girls are more likely to drop out and stay out of school. Photo Credit: Sarah Farhat / World Bank Child marriage can look different from one country to the next. Without context-specific data, it is difficult to design interventions that will effectively tackle the . Learn More
Climate Change Is A Feminist Issue
By Linnea Engstrom - MEP for Sweden’s Green Party and Vice-Chair of the EP Committee on Fisheries, IMAGE CREDIT: CC/Flickr – Annette Bernhardt 11 April 2017 - Climate change is the single most pressing global injustice facing present and future generations, and one of the greatest human rights challenges of our time. . Learn More
Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria & Yemen – Drought & War Heighten Famine Threat – Women & Children
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN - MARCH 27, 2017 BAIDOA, Somalia — First the trees dried up and cracked apart. Then the goats keeled over. Then the water in the village well began to disappear, turning cloudy, then red, then slime-green, but the villagers kept drinking it. That was all they had. . Learn More
Women’s March & Rally to Ban the Bomb – June 17 – March to Support a Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons
Saturday June 17th – New York City- Support the UN in Adopting a Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons Women Ban the Bomb is a women-led initiative building on the momentum of movements at the forefront of the resistance, including the Women’s March on Washington. . Learn More
Japan – “Womenomics” Encourages Women’s Labor Force Participation & Support for Working Mothers
Aozora Bank managing executive officer Michiko Achilles (C) talks with her subordinates at the bank headquarter in Tokyo. Achilles blasted through the "iron ceiling" that blocks many Japanese women's careers when she became a director at a bank this year, but an international survey shows her compatriots are falling behind. REUTERS/Toru Hanai . Learn More
Peru – Women Face Torrential Rains – Floods – Landslides – Displacement – Painful Losses – Heartaches
PERU - Native Women’s Radio in Aymara Language Reaches Rural Peru Women in Emergencies, for Optimism, for Indigenous Women’s Rights . Learn More
Australia – Domestic Violence – Responses & Practices with & for Aboriginal Women
This project concentrated on how workers and services listened to Aboriginal women—what they see and hear, what they have learnt, and how they apply this in practice. Produced by working closely and collaboratively for more than a year with three specialist DFV services — Alice Springs Women’s Shelter, Domestic Violence Crisis Service, and . Learn More
EU – Strategy for Rights of the Child – Gaps in Child Protection Frameworks – Special Risks for Migrant Children – GIRLS
Protecting the rights of migrant and refugee children is a key priority of the Council of Europe, and an area particularly targeted for action in its Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2016-2021) and the Secretary General's proposal for priority actions (4 March 2016). . Learn More
If We Are Serious about Peace & Development, We Must Take Women Seriously – Ambassador Chowdhury
By Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury – March 26, 2017 Photo: Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury. Credit: Mitsu (Eric) Kimura, SUA Archivist. Without peace, development is impossible, and without development, peace is not achievable, but without women, neither peace nor development is possible, writes Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, former . Learn More
Afghanistan – Without IDs, Afghan Women Often Remain Invisible in the Justice System
Due to difficulties in obtaining official IDs, Afghan women have a hard time navigating the justice system, says Marion Guillaume of Samuel Hall. Photo by AFP/Shah Marai WRITTEN BY Marion Guillaume – March 9, 2017 Nargez* was 14 years old when her father arranged her marriage to a 55-year-old stranger who had offered a large amount . Learn More
Canada – Canadian One-Year Private Sponsorship Contracts for Syria Refugees Come to Year’s End
Carole Atkins, with children from the Syrian refugee family she sponsored, at an ice rink in Toronto. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times By JODI KANTOR and CATRIN EINHORN - MARCH 25, 2017 TORONTO — One year after Canada embraced so many Syrian refugees, a reckoning was underway. Ordinary Canadians had essentially adopted thousands of . Learn More
Acid Attack Survivors – Photo Series: Sacred Transformations
By Kriti Tulsiani March 8, 2017 - A protest at Jantar Mantar in 2014 saw the presence of various acid attack survivors and that’s when the Delhi-based photographer Niraj Gera decided to do something more than just sympathising with them and bring to canvas a photo series as captivating and powerful as the Sacred Transformations. . Learn More
Morocco – Photography by a Woman, of Women, as an Art Form
By Amanda Sealy and Daisy Carrington, CNN – November 7, 2016 (CNN)Photography has, traditionally, been a somewhat contentious art form in Morocco. Design, architecture, fashion -- these are areas where the country shines. Photographs, however, seem to make many Moroccans uncomfortable. . Learn More
Central African Republic – Can a Special Hybrid Criminal Court Prosecute for Sexual, Gender-Based Violence, Genocide?
By Philip Kleinfeld – March 23, 2017 Central African Republic - The first time the Séléka rebels captured Danielle* she was visiting the shallow grave where her husband, father, and brothers were all buried. Danielle had witnessed the rebels kill the men outside her home just a few hours earlier. . Learn More
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