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By Jennifer Power and Andrea Waling Guest Contributors The public health response to COVID-19 has placed unprecedented limits on social contact. Many people may go without physical sexual intimacy for an extended (and indefinite) period. Given human touch and connection are fundamental ...

By Genavee Brown Guest Contributor Smartphones have changed the world. A quick glance around any street or communal space shows how dominant our favourite digital devices have become. We are familiar with the sight of groups of teenagers not talking, but ...

By Annan Boodram Contributing Columnist Rape, as a very specific physical form of violence against women and girls, is rooted in a complex set of patriarchal beliefs, power and control, that continue to create a social environment, in which sexual ...

By Annan Boodram Contributing Columnist People, who are forced to self-isolate or follow mandated shelter-in-place orders, are at risk of being trapped in abusive and coercive situations, isolated from the human and other resources that could help them. The pandemic ...

By Anne Fishel Guest Contributor Across the country an unprecedented number of couples are suddenly spending every waking and sleeping hour of the day with one another. That’s what many older retired couples do too, even when there isn’t a pandemic. ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Permit me to address a matter that is somewhat controversial and one, which also runs the risk of being viewed as adversarial. Domestic violence against men remains a real phenomenon, and yet, in 2020, we ...

By Annan Boodram Contributing Columnist Elderly individuals are often more vulnerable to various forms of abuse, because they tend to have assets that they have accumulated, through their lives, and because they may also experience mental or physical limitations. In ...

By Kara Fletcher Guest Contributor Many of us are several weeks into stay-at-home directives from our governments and health officials. For many, social distancing means sharing a confined space with romantic partners while navigating new stressful issues including sudden unemployment, working ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist We must maintain our closeness in these critical times. No rational representative of the homo sapiens genre can deny the damage and destruction that COVID-19 has wrought, and still continues to do to our lives ...

By Samira Sadeque IPS Contributing Writer UNITED NATIONS, New York April 7, 2020 (IPS) — A little over half of women, across the globe, are able to freely make choices about their sexual and reproductive health, according to a latest ...