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  • Through the COVID-19 Lens: Essential Services Needed to Prevent Unintended Pregnancies

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  December 15, 2021  //  By Shariq Farooqi
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    “The current pandemic is straining human resources, disrupting supply chains and service delivery, and negatively impacting service seeking among women and girls in countries across the globe,” said Sarah Barnes, Project Director of the Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative. She spoke at a recent event, co-hosted by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), on unintended pregnancies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The increasing rates of unintended pregnancies during the pandemic have exacerbated the vulnerabilities of many women, said Anneka Knutsson, Chief of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Branch at UNFPA.

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  • Accessing Justice for Gender-Based Violence in Humanitarian Settings

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  December 8, 2021  //  By Sarah B. Barnes

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    Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global epidemic rooted in gender inequality and an imbalance in power dynamics. All persons are at risk of violence because of their gender or perceived gender. Women and girls—including transgender women and girls—experience disproportionate gender-based violence, and this violence is even more prevalent among women and girls who have been forcibly displaced.

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  • Thomas Sankara’s Lost Legacy

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    Guest Contributor  //  December 6, 2021  //  By Richard Cincotta
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    Cet essai a été mis à jour avec une traduction française, disponible après la version anglaise, ci-dessous. 

    Thirty-four years ago, Burkina Faso’s president, Thomas Sankara, was murdered. Only now are his alleged assassins on trial. Had he survived, the arid, landlocked country of more than 20 million people might well have taken a far different path to development.

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  • 16DaysCampaign Calls to End Femicide: Research Shows Women in Perinatal Period at Risk

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    Dot-Mom  //  Reading Radar  //  December 1, 2021  //  By Shariq Farooqi

    Women's March Oakland 2019

    “Femicide is an important, but often unreported, cause of maternal mortality. This research documents the immediate need for universal abuse assessment of all pregnant women,” write the authors of the self-declared first study to report a definite link between abuse during pregnancy and attempted/completed femicide—the gender related killing of women. This study was published in 2002.

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  • COVID-19 Pandemic Exacerbates Violence Against Refugee Women and Girls

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  November 24, 2021  //  By Chanel Lee

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    Currently, refugee women and girls are facing three concurrent crises: their ongoing humanitarian crisis, the health crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the invisible crisis of gender-based violence (GBV). COVID-19 has severely worsened various dimensions of inequality for refugee women and girls. A 2020 report found that 73 percent of forcibly displaced women interviewed across 15 African countries reported elevated cases of domestic or intimate partner violence due to the pandemic. In addition, 51 percent reported sexual violence and 32 percent observed a rise in early and forced marriages.

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  • Localized Responses to Gender-Based Violence Leave Women-led Organizations Behind

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    Dot-Mom  //  On the Beat  //  October 6, 2021  //  By Shariq Farooqi
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    One in five women who is forcibly displaced will experience sexual violence, said Charlotte Slente, Danish Refugee Council Secretary-General at a roundtable on the prevention of gender-based violence in humanitarian crises during the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly. The high-level roundtable was hosted by the Government of Denmark in partnership with several other international bilateral agencies, as well as women-led organizations.*

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  • Integrating Conflict Prevention and Climate Change in U.S. Foreign Policy and Development Assistance

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    Guest Contributor  //  September 1, 2021  //  By Cynthia Brady, Liz Hume & Nick Zuroski
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    Climate change is no longer an abstract issue we may face in the future. Devastating forest fires, the hottest June on record in the United States, lethal flooding in Europe and Asia, and extreme droughts in Africa reveal that the climate is already changing with extreme consequences. Even more concerning than these events alone is the reality that the drivers of climate change, violent conflict, and fragile states compound each other. Climate change exacerbates unstable social, economic, and political conditions, while conflict and fragility can hinder effective climate change response and adaptation. The U.S. can address the compound risks created by both of these issues only through integration of conflict prevention and climate change in its foreign policy and development assistance.

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  • Afghans that Remain Are in Dire Need of Humanitarian Support

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    Dot-Mom  //  On the Beat  //  September 1, 2021  //  By Sara Matthews
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    Although large-scale evacuation efforts have dominated international attention, evacuation is only an option for a “tiny fraction” of the Afghan population, said Vicki Aken, Country Director for Afghanistan at the International Rescue Committee, at a congressional briefing hosted by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. The briefing was focused on the evolving humanitarian situation in Afghanistan and the need for civil protection in the country. “More than 40 million Afghans will remain in Afghanistan,” said Aken. “And half of them already face critical humanitarian needs.”

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