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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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: httpss://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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Blog Series: Methodological engagements for understanding violence against women and girls in cities * by Cathy McIlwaine & Moniza Rizzini Ansari Exploring the multi-layered and intersectional complexity of gender-based violence against women in contexts of poverty and urban armed violence is no simple task. It requires interdisciplinary and multi-method approaches to capture the multiple forms
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Favela communities have been severely affected by the coronavirus crisis intensifying existing inequalities *by Cathy McIlwaine Not a day goes by without a news story about the catastrophe of the coronavirus pandemic in Brazil as cases and deaths increase alarmingly and the severity of the political mishandling of the situation by President Jair Bolsonaro and
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Funded by the British Academy’s Heritage, Dignity and Violence programme as part of the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), this new research is led by King’s College (Professor Cathy McIlwaine), with co-investigation led by Queen Mary University of London (Professor Paul Heritage) and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Prof. Miriam Krenzinger) and Redes da
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“It’s difficult to know what to say. I want to applaud the bravery, but that feels trite. This needs to be seen, to be heard, to be felt. Because, in a way, everyone needs to know this hurt, to feel this pain, until nobody does. I count my blessings that I have never suffered this
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On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, URBANET features an article by Cathy McIlwaine that discusses the question of gender-based violence in cities. Read more:
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