S4E3 Conflict-related Sexual Violence - Cente...

Alcohol has long been a contested risk factor in research and conversations about violence against women. While harmful drinking does not cause violence in a simple or inevitable way, growing evidence shows that it can increase the frequency, severity and unpredictability of viol ...  Show more

From technology-facilitated gender-based violence to harms enabled by artificial intelligence, the digital landscape is evolving quickly - but are the systems we use to measure and understand that violence keeping pace?In this episode, we explore what it means to measure violence ...  Show more

This week a major conference organised by the UK government called The Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative took place in London. Delegates, policy makers, politicians and survivors from around the world listened to discussions on justice, reparations, accountability ...  Show more

***WARNING: This programme includes graphic descriptions of sexual violence*** 'A humanitarian crisis', that's how the medical charity Medicins Sans Frontiers describes the levels of violence against women they are dealing with in Papua New Guinea - levels they usually only witne ...  Show more

Brooke sits down with Dr. Nicole Bedera, a sociologist and leading researcher on sexual violence, to talk about the pervasiveness and danger of normalizing traumatic experiences. Brooke opens up about her own sexual assault and shares why she struggled to come forward. Then, Dr. ...  Show more