The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, known as the Istanbul Convention is a contested issue in Central and Eastern Europe. This article investigates this matter further by focusing specifically on Bulgaria and Poland using the most similar systems design; the former country has not ratified the convention, but the latter has.
Read MoreIn her latest paper Juliana Restrepo Sanín analyzes the case of Bolivia to show that perpetrators of violence against women in politics use democratic procedures, language, and institutions to attack and undermine women’s work in politics.
Read MoreJulia Sachseder draws on extensive ethnographic research in in Colombia to shed light on structural forces that have rendered possible, yet invisible overt and structural violence.
Read MoreCorrine L. Mason argues that DALYs are not only ableist, but reveal how the World Bank imagines women as “good investments” in market-based schemes with little consideration of their overall well-being.