Prajnya

Women and their right to political representation are noticeably missing from the frontlines of the ongoing verbal war on delimitation of electoral constituencies for elections to the Lok Sabha and state Assemblies. In our Gender, Media and Elections (GME) blog, Shikha Mukherjee explores the link between the delimitation exercise and gender representation and calls for more attention to this important issue.

Read here: https://nwmindia.org/gender-lens/gender-media-elections/delimitation-is-also-about-reservation-of-seats-for-women/

https://careinternationaluk.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/documents/WomenInWar_FINAL.pdf

Key Findings

Women are leading. 91% of women CARE spoke
to said they are actively leading and participating
in community groups. 79% are finding ways to
improve safety. 71% are actively sharing health
information, and 60% are focusing on education.

Women’s basic needs are going unfilled.
Livelihood is women’s highest priority. 58% of
women CARE spoke to in conflict zones said
they need livelihood assistance. 41% of women
prioritized food as one of the biggest impacts of
conflict.

Sexual violence is a growing threat. More than
257 million women were living in countries that
had significant or massive reports of sexual
violence in conflict in 2021.B

Compromised health services put women and
children at severe risk. One in 4 babies born in
2022 were born within 50 kilometers of a conflict.

One in 2 women who dies during pregnancy or
childbirth is in a conflict area. Maternal mortality
is more than 40 times higher in fragile contexts
than it is in developing countries.v

Formal leadership structures exclude women,
compromising peace and prosperity for
everyone.

Narratives of conflict underrepresent women.
Only 5% of articles about conflict in the last
decade focus on women’s experiences. Less
than 0.3% of articles talk about women in conflict
positively

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by Radhika Radhakrishnan on safe public spaces, surveillance and women's choices.
https://awomansplace.dataplusfeminism.mit.edu/en?fbclid=IwY2xjawIffA5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHUo9a8Q8oqQbU6B_DOJCZASiMPggtV_5Y3TsuB5JK8VznlQ1zPbMx_BsTg_aem_pAmXPAalbvL6IMWB8xSXtw

A woman's place is in a safe city What explains the recent proliferation of CCTVs on the streets of Indian cities, and where does the funding for it come from? Does such state surveillance – the monitoring of people’s behaviour or data by governments – help prevent the violence that cisgender and transgender women experience r...