The article explores feminist social work conducted during May 2021’s violent events in the mixed city of Haifa. Linking experiences of marginalization and processes of community building, the article outlines the possibilities embedded in women’s only spaces against a backdrop of hostility and aggression.

In Slovakia, the original discourse of the Catholic Church’s struggle for the preservation of the “traditional family” has spilled over into public politics in the form of what have come to be known as culture wars. New figures have appeared on the scene of anti-gender campaigns. The mobilization of Christian movements, however, is lately being disrupted by a fission in the seemingly unified agenda.

On 2 December 2021, the Heinrich Böll Foundation launched its second research brief associated to its “Care and Support in a Time of Epidemic" research project. The project is dedicated to better understanding how COVID-19, and the subsequent implementation of lockdown in South Africa on 27 March 2020 has impacted on domestic violence in the country.

6 months before the events of May 2021, I met in Jaffa with Shira (name changed), a member of the religious settlement group (garin torani), who moved to live there in 2009 with her spouse and their five children, from one of the Gush Etzion localities.

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women Jacey Kan, Advocacy Officer at the Association Concerning Sexual Violence Against Women (ACSVAW), talks in an interview about image-based sexual violence.