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Allen Kiconco
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Scholar: Gender and African Politics - Gender based violence|Conflict related sexual violence| Exploitation|Engagement with lived experience.
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kiconco.bsky.social
I am thankful to have worked alongside these amazing individuals on this reflective piece. Please read and let us know what you think.👇🏾
drellac.bsky.social Dr Ella Cockbain @drellac.bsky.social · Jun 26
This interview’s so sharp on precarious funding, systemic injustice in anti-trafficking & disconnects with community realities.

Real privilege to speak with @christianashnc.bsky.social @kiconco.bsky.social & Sophie Otiende & hear their critiques & alternative visions. @beyondslavery.bsky.social
opendemocracy.net opendemocracy.net @opendemocracy.net · Jun 24
How US funding built a brittle economy in anti-trafficking
June 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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drellac.bsky.social
This interview’s so sharp on precarious funding, systemic injustice in anti-trafficking & disconnects with community realities.

Real privilege to speak with @christianashnc.bsky.social @kiconco.bsky.social & Sophie Otiende & hear their critiques & alternative visions. @beyondslavery.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
New special issue out, with impressive team of editors

Global Reproductive Justice: A New Agenda for Feminist Economics?

“Reproductive justice framework challenges framings of reproductive rights centered on non-interference and the right to choose”

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Global Reproductive Justice: A New Agenda for Feminist Economics?
This special issue focuses on reproductive justice (RJ) as a framework for feminist research and activism. The introduction provides an overview of when and why the RJ framework was developed, outl...
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March 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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kopalo.bsky.social
On Gulf Cash and Influence in Africa: www.africanistperspective.com/p/gulf-cash-...
March 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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kellyzvobgo.bsky.social
📔 “The Afterlives of Transitional Justice” — the 2025 Special Issue of the International Journal of Transitional Justice (@oxunipress.bsky.social), which I edited with Francesca Parente — is out now!

You can read our editors’ introduction at the link in the comments below.
March 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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perivoliarc.bsky.social
Great to see these new toolkits on visa/passport equity and budget allocation launched. More on our blog: parc.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/03/11/l... @bristoluni.bsky.social #AfricaCharter #PerivoliFoundation
Launch of TEPSO toolkits to improve equity in global North-South partnerships
parc.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
March 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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crisisgroup.org
We have analysed the many ways in which gender shapes experiences of conflict and peacemaking over the past three decades.

Our new interactive map shows how our coverage of these dynamics has expanded. ⬇️

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD

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Crisis Group's Research on Gender and Conflict | Crisis Group
Over three decades, Crisis Group has built up a wide body of work on gender and conflict – evolving from a 2003 piece on women and reconstruction in Afghanistan to the range of publications covering m...
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March 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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kopalo.bsky.social
On the urgent need to seriously start working on ending aid dependency: www.africanistperspective.com/p/african-co...
African countries must urgently start the process of ending aid dependency
On why African countries must seize this moment to start the journey towards self-sufficiency
www.africanistperspective.com
March 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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christianashnc.bsky.social
Investing in the long-term economic stability of survivors decreases the likelihood that a survivor will feel compelled to share their story out of economic need if they otherwise wouldn't want to. View my full report: modernslaverypec.org/resources/to...
1) Three key factors that impact genuine access to choice and informed consent: the ability to self-select, economic need, and “playing to the algorithms”. This post is about economic need. 2) Just as there is a spectrum of agency in all other forms of labour that includes labour by coercion, by circumstance (in which they would not do this kind of labour if they had better options), or by free choice, survivor choice in storytelling can be considered along a similar spectrum. 3) The Spectrum of Agency for survivor storytelling: Storytelling is by force, fraud or coercion, which is human trafficking. Storytelling is chosen based on circumstances (Most labor in the US falls in this part of the spectrum), in which it is chosen from limited options. You might hear someone who is working by circumstance say "I would not choose to share my story for money if I had better options." And Storytelling can by by enthusiastic choice, in which it is freely chosen from a range of options. Adapted from the National Survivor Network. 4) While we affirm the right of individuals to share their stories out of economic need, the number of survivors who choose to share their stories because of financial insecurity points to the need for long-term economic supports and stability for survivors.
March 8, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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christianashnc.bsky.social
What's one way to minimize the likelihood of survivors agreeing to share their stories because they can't pay their bills if they don't? View their exhibitions: www.azadikenya.org/exhibition2022 & www.azadikenya.org/exhibition-2.... View my full report: modernslaverypec.org/resources/to....
"Azadi Kenya's storytelling model ... acknowledged that financial pressures can lead to the sharing of stories based on marketing tactics or financial pressures (rather than genuine survivor interest) and established storytelling fellowships to allow people withed lived experience economic support to explore their storytelling approaches with creative freedom." -Whose story, whose benefit? Returning (to) the power of authentic narrative
February 10, 2024 at 1:01 AM
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joelquirk.bsky.social
So our collection on ethics, methods and knowledge economies in Africa finally exists in the world....

The introduction can be read for free here: books.google.co.za/books?id=Jcr...

The official version is here: ohioswallow.com/book/Researc...
November 1, 2023 at 1:09 PM
kiconco.bsky.social
Publication News! We are excited to share this work with the world. #Collaboration #ResearchingSGBV #ethics #methods #knowledgeproduction #postconflicts
joelquirk.bsky.social Joel Quirk @joelquirk.bsky.social · Nov 1
So our collection on ethics, methods and knowledge economies in Africa finally exists in the world....

The introduction can be read for free here: books.google.co.za/books?id=Jcr...

The official version is here: ohioswallow.com/book/Researc...
November 1, 2023 at 4:24 PM
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sabraboyd.bsky.social
The survivor-vetted list of movies about trafficking (so you don’t need to watch Sound of Freedom) was recently updated with new additions including the 2002 film, Rabbit-Proof Fence, which I highly recommend for its depiction of #MMIP that continues today docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Survivor-Vetted Films About Human Trafficking
Survivor-Vetted Films About Human Trafficking This is a list of survivor-vetted movies about human trafficking (documentaries, series, and scripted features). As survivors around the world add sugges...
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September 30, 2023 at 2:10 PM
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sharonwang.bsky.social
Thrilled that this work is finally out!!

www.eswalliance.org/toward_safer...
Toward Safer Intimate Futures: Recommendations for Tech Platforms to Reduce Image Based Sexual Abuse
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September 27, 2023 at 8:57 PM
kiconco.bsky.social
Thanks, @christianashnc.bsky.social for the invitation. Good to be here 😊
September 16, 2023 at 5:22 AM
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nsn.bsky.social
Missed our IG Live for #TeachTraffickingTruths Day? It's captioned on YouTube! Chris, Sophie, & Ashante talked about what survivor leadership can be & how realizing "awareness" is knowledge dissemination means we have a responsibility to share accurate knowledge.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfH...
Teach Trafficking Truths Day IG Live with Sophie Otiende of GFEMS & Ashante Taylorcox of YAMT
We were honored to be part of Teach Trafficking Truths Day along with many other incredible anti-trafficking organizations. We were joined by Sophie Otiende ...
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September 12, 2023 at 1:30 PM