Harvard Gender Violence Project
Resources
Scholarly Papers
A National Network to End Dating Violence: Out Against Abuse
Sabrin Chowdhury
Back to Basics: Essential Qualities of Services for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Shanti J. Kulkarni, Holly Bell and Diane McDaniel Rhodes
Implementing Gender Curriculum Programs to End Sexual Violence
Sabrin Chowdhury
Men, Masculinity, and Domestic Violence in India
International Center for Research on Women
Recovery : Resilience and Growth in the Aftermath of Domestic Violence
Kim M. Anderson, Lynette M. Renner and Fran S. Danis
Media and Blog Articles
Access to sanitation and women’s rights
SAI Seminar, November 24, 2014
Alchemizing anger to hope
The Hindu, Jan. 25, 2013
America’s Rape Problem: We Refuse to Admit That There Is One
The Nation, Jan. 4 2013
Amid rape fiasco, India’s leaders keep up insensitive remarks
The Washington Post, Jan. 4, 2013
A moment of triumph for women
The Hindu, Jan. 25, 2013
A task only half finished
The Hindu, August 28, 2013 By Aparna Viswanathan
Afghan rape victim ‘attacked again by government workers protecting her’
The Guardian, Jan. 23, 2013
Balancing the juvenile act
The Hindu, September 9, 2013
Bolivian State Politician Caught on Video Allegedly Raping Unconscious Woman on Parliament Floor
Jezebel, Jan. 18, 2013
Changing attitudes towards women
The Express Tribune, Dec. 31, 2012
Domestic Violence: It’s Assuming Epidemic Proportions—Effah Chukwuma
Vanguard, June 14, 2013
Decoding Gender-Based Violence
The World Bank, June 10, 2013
Feminism Can’t Cure India’s Rape Epidemic – Shikha Demla
Reason.com, June 19, 2013
Focus on Rape in India Ignores Gender Violence as a Global Tragedy
Global Post, January 9, 2013
Harvard College Women’s Center
A History of Violence
How do you learn grit?
Video, The Economist.com, Jan. 22, 2013
If we want to see the change, let us be the change – Beaking the Shackles of Male Chauvinism in India
Soroptimist International, Jan. 1, 2013
India Rape Trial Starts With Renewed Ban on Media Coverage
NYTimes, Jan. 24, 2013
India’s 70 Million Missing Women: Female Feticide
Soroptimist International, March 8, 2013
Keeping Women Safe: Addressing the root causes of violence against women in South Asia
Harvard Magazine, January 2015
Let’s ask how we contribute to rape
The Hindu, Dec. 25, 2012
Mukhtar Mai – the gang rape victim who defied her attackers
New Statesman, Oct. 19, 2012
Nigeria has a rape culture too
The Guardian, Jan. 14, 2013
No Shortcuts on Rape
Economic and Political Weekly, Jan. 12, 2013
Rape and the crisis of Indian masculinity
The Hindu, Dec. 19, 2012
Reflections of a sorry repatriate
India Today, Jan. 18, 2013
Some thoughts on rape, sexual violence and protest
Devika Narayan
The Delhi student movement
The Express Tribune, Jan 8, 2012
The rapist in the mirror
The Hindu, Jan. 11, 2013
The Worldwide War on Baby Girls
The Economist, March 4, 2010
The Worst Place In The World To Be A Woman
The Economist, April 12, 2012
Wars Overlooked Victims
The Economist, January 13, 2011
What Men Can Do To Prevent Gender Violence
Jackson Katz, 1999
Power Point Presentations
Curricular Reform
Power Point Presentation
Reports and Guides
Concurrent evaluation of Adolescent Education Program Report for 2010- 2011
submitted to UNFPA by Sambodhi Research and Communications Pvt. Ltd., 2010-2011
Guidelines and Protocols: Medico-legal care for survivors/victims of sexual violence
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, March, 2014
Measures for Ensuring the Safety of Women and Programmes for Gender Sensitization on Campuses
published by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi in December 2014
Report of Expert Committee on Gender and Education
published by the National Commission for Women, New Delhi, Charu Walikhan
School Education in India: A Handbook
by Akanksha Bapna, Ph.D. and Namrata Sharma, Evaldesign January 2015
Speeches and Presentations
Jacqueline Bhabha speaks to CCTV about gender violence in India
June 2014
Speech by Retired Chief Justice Leila Seth
Tackling Gender-Based Violence in South Asia – What Options do we Have?
Webinar with Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard University, November 25, 2013
Ted Talk: Jackson Katz: Violence Against Women—It’s A Men’s Issue
Ted Talk, May 2013
Women Rising: Empowering the Women of Pakistan and Afghanistan
SAI Gender Seminar, Harvard University, November 12, 2014
Women’s Rights and Gender Based Violence: The Influence of the Education System
Educators for Teaching India Conference (podcast), Harvard University, April 2014
Media Coverage
Harvard Gender Violence Project Press Release
Harvard to launch gender justice bid, Times of India, July 10, 2013
New Delhi: Harvard University’s Gender Violence Project, established in the wake of the December 16 Delhi gang rape case and the call for action to stop violence against women, will kick off with the ‘Gender Justice and Criminal Law Reform Conference’ in Delhi on Friday. Read more.
Harvard to hold gender justice and criminal law conference here, First Post, July 9, 2013
New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) Leading law makers, police officials and social activists are meeting here over the weekend in a Harvard University-organised conference to discuss effective legal, educational and social approaches to promote gender equality and curb violence against women. Read more.
Make laws on gender violence more citizen-friendly: Experts, Business Standard, July 7, 2013
“In India, the laws are not harmonized. As part of moving forward on gender issues we have to understand how to simplify the law. Very often even the police do not know the laws,” Ruchira Gupta, gender activist and founder president of NGO Apne Aap Women Worldwide, said at the seminar “Gender Justice, Criminal Law and Curricular Reforms” held at the India International Centre.
Understanding India’s rape crisis, Harvard Gazette, September 20, 2013
Q&A with Jacqueline Bhabha on why Delhi rape case convictions don’t solve the problem. Read more.
