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On Rape, Short Skirts & Patriarchy: Are Women Wearing Short Skirts ‘Asking For It’?

What do miniskirts, booty shorts and low rise jeans have in common with rape? With the uproar that arose in India and the region, following the Delhi Gang Rape, which drew the kind of attention that issues of rape and sexual vi...

by Senel Wanniarachchi

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WATCH: The dangers of comparing domestic violence between men and women

A while ago, a domestic abuse advert by the ‘Man Kind Initiative’ was uploaded on YouTube. The advert was produced by the charity to highlight that violence does in fact occur against men, such as domestic abuse. Al...

by Nuzhat Fatima

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WATCH: We Need Male Leaders Against Gender Abuse

Jackson Katz PhD is an anti-sexist activist, filmmaker, author and educator. In this TED talk he discusses his “bystander approach” to eradicating sexist abuse, in which witnesses of abuse – and male ones in particular �...

by Richard Scott-Jones

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WATCH: The dangers of comparing domestic violence between men and women

WATCH: We Need Male Leaders Against Gender Abuse

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