By Inés Pousadela
Barely weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns arose about the safety of women trapped indoors with their abusers, and data showing spikes in gender-based violence (GBV) quickly reached the news headlines.
Opinions & Features
By Lisa Majumdar, Advocacy Officer, CIVICUS
Amidst a flurry of high-profile elections this week, it will be Myanmar’s turn to go to the polls on 8 November.
By Inés Pousadela, Senior Research Specialist and Andrew Firmin Editor-in-Chief at CIVICUS
Covid-19 has unleashed a multi-dimensional, once-in-a-generation crisis.
By Marianna Belalba Barreto, Civic Space Research Lead at CIVICUS and Aarti Narsee, Civic Space Research Officer
More than half a year after the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, governments are continuing to waste precious time and energy restricting human rights rather than focusing on fighting the virus.
TW/CW: transphobia, physical abuse, emotional abuse, financial abuse, sexual violence, rape, torture, murder, self-harm, drug and alcohol abuse
I am Saro Imran, a transgender activist running a community-based organisation in Pakistan.
