Books, Articles and PhDs

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Attitudes of Victim-Blame Toward Image-Based Sexual Abuse Victim-Survivors in Fiji: Understanding Gendered and Cultural Norms

Victim-blaming and entrenched gender norms are a persistent barrier to justice and support pathways for victim-survivors of sexual and domestic violence in Fiji

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How safe are women? Constructing a cross-national index on the foundations of women’s safety

This article introduces the global Women’s Safety Index (WSI), outlining its rationale, purpose, and potential applications. The Index consist of three dimensions: Equity, Protection, and Resources, identified as foundational to women’s safety.

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Male Perpetrator Interventions for Domestic and Family Violence in the Indo-Pacific: A Scoping Review

A scoping review mapping 42 domestic and family violence perpetrator interventions across 14 Indo-Pacific countries - revealing a sector more innovative than its evidence base reflects, and a significant gap in programs reaching marginalised men.

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Suicides and Claimed Suicides in the Context of Domestic and Family Violence and Coercive Control: Legal and Policy Responses

Increasingly, suicide is being linked with histories of domestic and family violence. While some abusive partners kill their victim in a context of domestic and family violence and then claim it was suicide, in other cases the cause of death may be less directly connected to the abusive partner.

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Robots Behaving Badly: Algorithmic Colonialism and the Consequences of AI

This article examines the political, social, and relational consequences of artificial intelligence through an anti-colonial and Indigenous lens.

How International Aid Shapes Feminist Movements in Fiji
Funding, Power, and Resistance: How International Aid Shapes Feminist Movements in Fiji

Fiji endures one of the world’s highest rates of gender-based violence (GBV), with two in three women experiencing physical or sexual abuse from a male intimate partner. Entrenched colonial legacies, harmful social norms, and economic inequalities fuel this crisis, normalizing the violence and silencing its survivors.

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Mainstreaming gender to combat violence against women

Drawing on gender policy reform theories and global evidence, we analyse how gender mainstreaming has been implemented to inform and drive VAW policy adoption and implementation.

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The rapid diffusion of gender mainstreaming

In this spotlight, we examine the patterns of gender mainstreaming diffusion across various policy areas and different government levels, from international and national to subnational policy jurisdictions.