Confronting sexual violence and abuse in the aid industrial complex: Towards transnational feminist responses – GADN

This thinkpiece discusses the issue of sexual violence and abuse within the international aid and humanitarian sectors. It argues that the current crisis reflects an entrenched heteropatriarchal hostility to women’s rights and a lack of meaningful feminist analysis. The piece calls for a transnational feminist response that goes beyond safeguarding to tackle deeper issues of misogyny, race, class, and imperialism. The author emphasizes the need to demolish barriers of privilege and exclusion, and to prioritize the dignity, emancipation, and liberation of women and girls.