Click on the link below to read the latest report, part of the research Resisting Violence, Creating Dignity: negotiating Violence Against Women and Girls through community history-making in Rio de Janeiro (2019-2021) CLICK HERE TO READ REPORT
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Clique no link para ler o relatório completo e o resumo com os resultados qualitativos da pesquisa “Resistindo às violências de gênero: construindo dignidades de mulheres através da resiliência comunitária no Rio de Janeiro.” Acesse aqui o relatório completo Acesse aqui o resumo e recomendações de políticas públicas
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(EN) The audiovisual performance/installation We still fight in the dark was created as a response to the research We can’t fight in the dark – led by Professor Cathy McIlwaine between 2016-2018 in partnership with Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS) (funded by the ESRC) – as one of the first research projects to gather
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Blog Series: Methodological engagements for understanding violence against women and girls in cities “My family is also from here, so my relationship with the territory is, I think, really historical, my grandmother came here very young, my mother too, so everything that I have today came from here” Katia, is a 25-years-old black, cis woman
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If you didn’t manage to visit our exhibition, you can access the exhibition booklet, with all QR codes to access the materials presented here
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Click here to read the article recently published on Social and Cultural Geography Journal (April 2022) ABSTRACT Although the intensification of direct and indirect gendered violence against women during the COVID-19 pandemic has been extensively reported globally, there is limited research on women’s responses to it. Addressing calls to explore the relationships between emotional-affective atmospheres
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Exhibition Launch will happen on the 4th May, from 6pm-8pm at The Exchange, King’s College London, followed by events on the 5th and 12th May Join us for the launch event of the exhibition “DIGNITY AND RESISTANCE: Community pathways for resisting gendered urban violence in Rio de Janeiro and London”, which explores the multilayered, formal and informal initiatives
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Click on the link to read the full report and short summary with qualitative findings from the research Resisting violence, creating dignity: negotiating Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) through community history-making in Rio de Janeiro Click to read/Download the Research Report Click to read/Download the Key Findings and Policy Recommendations
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As the rates and intensity of violence against women dramatically rose globally over lockdown, Gil, a Brazilian woman in London who has suffered domestic violence, tells her story of being denied support from emergency services. Rebecca Wilson and Marilyn Thomson explore the added risk for Latin American women who face violence in London, ahead of
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*Note: Originally posted on: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2021/11/25/women-sisterhood-violence-guatemala/ A fire in a state-run shelter in Guatemala in 2017 brought together a group of women who have been fighting for justice for the victims ever since in this case. Cathy McIlwaine, Jelke Boesten (King’s College London) and Rebecca Wilson (Latin American Bureau) recall this incident and other two experiences of grassroots work throughout Latin America and
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