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Austerity is gender-based violence – This is why
Austerity is a policy that never works other than to alleviate banks and investors, who inevitably respond by paying themselves hefty bonuses. It causes untold harm to the least protected in society, directly and indirectly, through cutting the health expenditure and social protections that women, non-binary people and those who experience intersecting inequalities based on race, ethnicity and sexuality, need the most.
The pandemic of femicides in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Latin American and Caribbean region is not exempt from this global “pandemic”. Throughout their lives, all women and girls in the region are at risk of suffering gender-based violence in one of its various forms, and between 60% and 76% of women have been victims or experienced gender-based violence in some area of their lives (ECLAC, 2020).
Why We Need More Women in Politics
Women are often dynamic ambassadors of change, their full and active participation in decision making equal to men is essential to ensure greater responsiveness to citizens’ needs also to build and sustain democracies over the world. Yet women still have far to go towards equal representation in positions of power and leadership, whether in corporate boardrooms or presidential cabinets.
Reclaiming “Go Back to Your Country”
According to USAfacts.org, since 2018 alone, the U.S has welcomed over 45 million immigrants from all over the world. These families and individuals have left everything behind in order to pursue the “American dream”, as it is advertised. They soon learned that this dream would not be an easy climb due to the oppressive and systemically racist wall that barricades immigrants and people of color from reaching it. After years of being chastised, overworked, and with the promise of the American dream nowhere in sight, immigrants are finally listening.
May The Resources Be With You: Space Security & Asteroid Mining
To assess the future of space security, one must critically analyze the development of emerging technologies and the potential exploitation of space assets alongside policy implications. Moving forward into the next decade, new space actors are entering the space frontier with a growing interest in resource mining on asteroids.
Female Police Officers in Mexico: The Other Victims of Violence
According to the National Crime Victimization and Perception Survey, in 2019 for every sexual crime committed against men in Mexico, 11 are committed against women. On the other hand, according to the National Survey on Household Relationship Dynamics, 22% of Mexican women have been discriminated at the work sphere throughout their lives.
The Never-Ending Refugee Crisis: The “ISIS Camp”
In March 2019, ISIS was allegedly defeated, however, history makes us ask ourselves if territorially defeating a terrorist group makes its ideology vanish, recalling that ISIS was created from scattered cells of Al-Qaeda when it was at its lowest point. The organization was dying, but its ideology was not.
Women, Culture & Sexual Harassment
Often, when it comes to celebrities being accused of sexual assault, their fan base starts automatically defending them and thinks it is OK to slut-shame the victims. These comments are disturbing. Sadly, they reflect how everyone reacts when a woman has the courage to speak up when she is attacked, harassed, assaulted. It is always her fault.
Here Today, Not Gone Tomorrow
While plastic is not the only substance that is contributing to the large waste problem, it is the most problematic. In 2013, the average American produced about 4.4 pounds of waste per day. That’s 1,361.4 pounds a year. Collectively, that’s 167 million tons of trash every year.
The Production of Knowledge and the Male Bias
All information is produced within the cultural prejudices and power structures of society. Sexism, for instance, has existed all throughout modern philosophy and science. Aristotle was one of the greatest influences on western thought. He argued women were inferior to men and promoted the idea that women should be ruled. A belief system that organized modern law and thought around treating women as ‘subjects’ instead of equal citizens.