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One of the outcomes of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa 2015 was agreement among government, business and civil-society leaders to call for coordinated, immediate but long-term actions to address violent extremism in the region. What follows are key reflections from the summit discussions on how participants proposed to address violent extremism, predominantly […]

They’re silently carrying these stories because they’re worried that you can’t A man emailed recently in response to something I’d written about street harassment. He was so glad, he said, that his college-age daughter never experienced anything like that. Less than a day later, he wrote again. They had just talked. She told him she’d […]

On a cold February night a few years ago, professor and researcher Niobe Way presented findings from her book Deep Secrets in New York. She was hosted by Partnership with Children, a groundbreaking organization doing powerful interventions with at-risk children in New York’s public schools. The work done by folks like Way and Partnership with […]

This is a story about the girl. A very special girl named Tijana Mijalković. Tijana is a trainer, activist, tango dancer, professional translator and professor of Spanish language. Twelve years ago, she was in the group of young people who founded youth organization Centre E8, and she was collaborating with our team, ever since. When […]

Revelations about the abuse of power by men have been manifold over the past year. In particular, it has become clear that the media business suffers from some of the worst sexism of any industry. How has this lopsided power imbalance between men and women been reflected in the media that we consume? I set […]

Female presenters, pundits and fans are on our screens in unprecedented numbers. It looks as if the sport has progressed – but the rate of sexual harassment and assault tells a disturbing story This World Cup, by any reckoning, is a significant moment for women in sport. For the first time, both UK broadcasters took female […]

Rape culture is defined as “a society or environment whose prevailing social attitudes have the effect of normalizing or trivializing sexual assault and abuse” by the Oxford Dictionary. Rape culture isn’t a society that says rape is fine, rather it’s a society that minimizes rape — with things like victim blaming, denying the prevalence of sexual harassment (#MeToo, anybody?), […]

According to Merriam-Webster, dehumanization means “to deprive of positive human qualities.” Another definition is “to make someone fundamentally less human.” I’d like to go further and say that our culture often dehumanizes boys by depriving them of natural human expression. Every time we tell a boy that crying is weak, we take a piece of his humanity away. Every time a boy gets teased for […]

A young journalist, stubborn and burned-out, a husband and father, gets himself into a jam through a series of foolish acts; “Masculinity” is a story about a man who “had always found the night shift humiliating” and still carries them on in order to bring home the bacon to his family, but by virtue of […]

Marina Blagojevic Hughson (Hjuson), the main researcher on the IMAGES Serbia Project and Center E8’s long-term associate was yesterday announced the winner of the Fulbright’s Leader 2018 Award! Marina Blagojević Hughson is a sociologist, theoretician and researcher in the field of gender studies and an international gender expert. Hughson works at the Institute for Criminological and […]