Publications

Violence Against Women in Elections in Haiti: An IFES Assessment

What is The Monkey Cage? “Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.” — H.L. Mencken The Monkey Cage’s mission is...

In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal last week, millions of women and men took to social media to speak out against sexual...

Equal participation for women and men in politics and at all levels of decision-making has been widely acknowledged as essential to more...

The rising influence of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) has paralleled the rapid development of women’s political...

In October 2018, the Office for the High Commissioner on Human Rights’ Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls presented a...

Women around the world are playing increasingly visible roles in the poltiical processes of their countries as voters, candidates,...

Political violence is unfolding in our pockets-on our phones and devices and across the social media we consume-and it is targeting women...

Around the world, women frequently experience harassment and violence when they decide to exercise their political rights. Information...

Technological developments move at lightening pace and can be bring with them new possibilities for social harm. This book brings...

This article presents a conceptual orientation to the intersection of gender, politics, and violence. The first part of the article will...

How is political violence gendered? We connect the traditional political violence literature’s emphasis on categorizing attacks to the...

The publication “Preventing violence against women in elections: A programming guide”, jointly produced by UN Women and UNDP, brings to...