Background The Rio Declaration and Call to Action that was launched at the end of the First Global Symposium in Rio de Janeiro in 2009, emphasized the importance of involving men in efforts to achieve gender justice in all areas of human rights and development. Meanwhile, the Second Global Symposium …
Read More »Open Letter to Australia Awards Scholarships, DFAT and the University of Melbourne
Responding to the allegations of sexual assault perpetrated by UII Alumni, AAS scholarship recipients, and University of Melbourne Australia post-graduate students against 30 female students and alumni of UII Yogyakarta, We, New Men’s Alliance, a national pro-feminist men and women network, fully support survivors to speak up and take legal …
Read More »State of the World’s Fathers: Time for Action
Caregiving and unpaid care work are at the heart of any discussion of the state of the world’s fathers, and at the heart of gender inequality. For all the attention paid to unpaid care work, however, in no country in the world do men’s contributions to unpaid care work equal women’s. …
Read More »The economic and social benefits of gender-equal homes
It is impossible to talk about women’s economic empowerment or gender equality in the workplace without also talking about how responsibilities are shared at home. Investing in Women’s survey of urban millennials in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia found that most women, regardless of their employment status, take on the …
Read More »Why working with men could help efforts to combat violence against women
Numerous studies have noted that South Africa is an extremely violent country with high rates of interpersonal violence and homicide. Along with this, the rates of sexual violence are high, with a report by the Medical Research Council showing that 25% of women in their study had been raped in …
Read More »Masculinities And Gender-Based Violence In South Africa
A Study Of A Masculinities-Focused Intervention Programme South Africa as a country experiences extremely high rates of violence and gender-based violence (GBV). A wide range of interventions have been implemented as a means to respond to these, including legislative changes from government, and women-focused reactive interventions which act as support …
Read More »Sexual Politics in Muslim Societies
Sexuality, rights and Islam—individually each of these words has a rich history, unstable and contested, but profoundly productive. Taken together, however, they signal an extraordinarily charged dynamic in the world today. Whether it is Daesh circulating footage of its executions of gay men in the name of purifying their “caliphate”, …
Read More »10 Things Men Can do to Prevent Gender Violence
Approach gender violence as a MEN’s issue, not just a woman’s issue. Realize it can involve men of all ages, races, and socioeconomic levels. Realize men can be empowered bystanders and confront abusive peers. If someone you know is abusing his female partner – or is disrespectful or abusive to …
Read More »Revenge Porn: Same Old Sexism, New Medium
The Internet can be a hostile place—a survey by Rad Campaign, Lincoln Park Strategies and Craig Newman found that 47 percent of Americans under 35 have been abused online—but it’s more overwhelmingly so for women, who made up 57 percent of those Americans. One respondent said men she turned down …
Read More »A Journey of Transformation
The Story of Transformation is a mini documentary film that captures the portrait of a family’s journey in East Lampung that practices an equal relation within the household. This film depicts the character of Sulaiman, a father and a husband who works as a cassava seller and his wife, Indah …
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