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In 2021, an internal review recommended that UN Women’s gender equality work with men and boys shift from a “male engagement” framework to one focused on transforming patriarchal masculinities, explicitly addressing patriarchy and its various forms of violence. The Transforming Patriarchal Masculinities (TPM) framework calls for a transformative approach, requiring deep, lasting changes not only […]

Research tells us that socially constructed gender norms which associate masculinity with power, violence and control, play an important role in driving conflict and insecurity. Many men across the world oppose these rigid, inequitable and violence-endorsing norms, and work in solidarity with women and those beyond the gender binary to resist them, although in many […]

Co-authored with Thea Shahrokh and Sushmita Preetha Deep-rooted patriarchal systems uphold gender and class-based inequalities in Bangladesh, within which the issue of land distribution and use remains integral to the transformation of poverty for a large number of women and men. Nijera Kori is a national social movement organising landless people to claim their rights […]