Local artists interpret research on GBV in exhibition: Sunday World
11 December 2022
"Academic research, art and dialogue come together in a study on gender-based violence (GBV) in South Africa and India, with local artist Philiswa Lila tasked with interpreting it in an exhibition. The research known as the GendV Project – which is headed by the University of Cambridge in collaboration with the University...
GendV Artist Philiswa Lila named on the Mail & Guardian's "Top 200 Young South Africans List 2022"
30 August 2022
Philiswa Lila has been named as one of the Mail & Guardian's "Top 200 Young South Africans List 2022", for her work as a Visual Artist and Storyteller. The Mail & Guardian writes; 'Lila is a visual artist and storyteller. She is influenced by the nuances of memory, brought about by the sensory explorations of...
UK launches gender equality plan but critics call funding a ‘drop in the ocean’
8 March 2023
'Manali Desai, the head of Cambridge University’s sociology department and an expert on gendered violence in India and South Asia, said: “The FCDO needs to join up its strategy on women and girls to almost every facet of the current challenges facing areas receiving aid. These include poverty, climate change, war...
DW News: India is undercounting as the UN seeks femicide stats
25 November 2022
"It's circular. Gender violence is an expression of patriarchy," said Manali Desai, the head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. "We find that single explanations — like crisis of masculinity or poverty or financial insecurity — cannot explain such a complicated phenomenon." Desai runs a project...