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More than 1.7 billion children worldwide experience violence in their upbringing. Prevalence rates are particularly high in Africa. Toxic stress associated with violence impacts the developing brain. This affects behavioural, social, and emotional functioning of children. The project will test an… [read more]

Janina Steinert participates in roundtable on "Strengthening democracy by reducing threats to women in politics" at the Blavatnik School, University of Oxford. The roundtable is chaired by Professor Ngaire Woods, Founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government, and participants include, among… [read more]

In January 2024, the article “Tackling online misogyny in political campaigns: Promise and limitations of artificial intelligence“ was published in the journal Feminist Media Studies. The article emphasises that artificial intelligence alone is not sufficient to curb misogynistic political… [read more]

Shruti Shukla presents her new publication "Mechanisms behind gender transformative approaches targeting adolescent pregnancy in low- and middle-income countries: a realist synthesis protocol" on the Early Career Workshop on Children and Young People’s Well-Being online on January 19 2024. On the… [read more]

Shruti Shukla is going to present data on adolescent pregnancy at the Campbell Collaboration´s Conceference "What Works South Asia 2023 Evidence-based strategies to enhance development in South Asia" in New Delhi between November 28 - 30 2023. [read more]

Ladyane Souza, Maria Paula Russo Riva (both human rigths lawyers), Luise Koch, and Raji Ghawi (both researchers at TUM) published the article "Hate messages received by black and white candidates during the 2022 brazilian elections, and its potential implications". [read more]

The TUM San Francisco Dialogue Decolonizing Global Health – Considerations of North-South Relations for Equitable Global Health Collaboration delves into decolonizing the global health field. [read more]

"‘We don’t get money in our own hands’: evidence from focus group discussions on economic abuse against women in two states of India" was published in BMJ Global Health. It concludes that economic abuse has the potential to trap women in abusive relationships. And that effective interventions to… [read more]

Henrike Sternberg presentes her research on the topic "Spousal trust and trustworthiness in household decision making: experimental evidence from India". [read more]

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