Featured Content: Gender Equality
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From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
The Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women is seen as the International Bill of Women’s Rights with rights that extend to the… -
From SDG Academy on 8 October, 2019
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From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
The Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women is seen as the International Bill of Women’s Rights with rights that extend to the… -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
Gender inequality has its roots in differences between men and women in society. These result from social constructions of relations, which in turn stem from sexual… -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
Violence against women can be seen on three levels: the international, national, and intimate levels. We can look at psychological as well as patriarchal factors, and… -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
There is a gendered experience of poverty: women and men experience poverty differently, and women may experience poverty differently from one another. In the case of… -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
There is very little information about who makes up the casualties of disasters, but some have suggested that women are 14 times more likely to die during an event in… -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
The terms “sexual” and “sexual abuse” were avoided at the inter-governmental level until 1999 with the Convention of the Rights of the Child and… -
From SDG Academy on 23 August, 2019
This case study looks at the specific relationship between gender and water. -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
This chapter specifically focuses on the role of women in natural resource management and peacebuilding, as well as related challenges and opportunities. Sensitivity to… -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
Gender wasn’t on the development agenda until the 1970s. At that time, it was recognized that development could harm women as modernization brings increased… -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
Sarah Bradshaw argues that if we want to change rates of violence, we have to change the way violence is understood and change attitudes about violence in society. In… -
From SDG Academy on 12 August, 2019
This chapter uses two examples to give further insight into the processes that have been incurred in the context of social exclusion. First–The British assimilated… -
From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019
Over time, many societies have come to the conclusion that mutually beneficial relationships can be forged with minorities using the ideas of reservations and…