A Gender Lens is Essential to Sustaining Peace: Evidence from Mozambique

Nov 25, 2019
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Despite decades of relative peace and recent efforts to promote gender equality, women and girls in Mozambique continue to experience a disproportionate amount of insecurity. A new report released today by Associação Sócio-Cultural Horizonte Azul (ASCHA), a Mozambican feminist civil society organization, and the Women, Peace and Security Program at Columbia University reveals the importance of a broad understanding of “peace and security” to account for the insecurity faced by Mozambican women and girls in their everyday lives.