Lori Heise
@lheise1.bsky.social
Researcher and practitioner working to reduce violence against women and children. Also posting on social justice, economic inequality and reclaiming power from corporate interests.
Risk factors for IPV in the Caribbean reproduce the classic pattern see elsewhere: the importance of early childhood exposure to violence, harmful alcohol use, and poverty as drivers of violence as well as gender inequality.
June 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Risk factors for IPV in the Caribbean reproduce the classic pattern see elsewhere: the importance of early childhood exposure to violence, harmful alcohol use, and poverty as drivers of violence as well as gender inequality.
New data on IPV from 5 Caribbean countries finds once again how few abused women reach out to formal services. We must train mothers and friends—the “first responders” how to support women appropriately. @prevention-collaborative.org
June 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
New data on IPV from 5 Caribbean countries finds once again how few abused women reach out to formal services. We must train mothers and friends—the “first responders” how to support women appropriately. @prevention-collaborative.org
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Just terrifying how much more of this there is going to be
Can't live near mountains, can't live near coasts, can't live near forests, can't live near rivers - where's everyone going to live?
Can't live near mountains, can't live near coasts, can't live near forests, can't live near rivers - where's everyone going to live?
INCREDIBLE !!
Here we are... 😱😱😱
After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...
Devastating! 😭
www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...
Here we are... 😱😱😱
After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...
Devastating! 😭
www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...
May 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Just terrifying how much more of this there is going to be
Can't live near mountains, can't live near coasts, can't live near forests, can't live near rivers - where's everyone going to live?
Can't live near mountains, can't live near coasts, can't live near forests, can't live near rivers - where's everyone going to live?
Important article demanding that the UK government does not abandon it historic leadership role supporting gender equality, as threatened by the Foreign Minister
60 charities demand UK reverse ‘shameful’ aid cuts for women and girls
Exclusive: Cuts to spending will leave at least a million women and children at increased risk of violence, charities say
www.independent.co.uk
May 26, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Important article demanding that the UK government does not abandon it historic leadership role supporting gender equality, as threatened by the Foreign Minister
NIH bans all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t... via @statnews.com
NIH bans all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts
NIH prohibited the awarding of new grants to institutions that have DEI programs or boycott Israeli companies
www.statnews.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
NIH bans all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t... via @statnews.com
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📣 Calling all #ParentingPractitioners
Our new brief—co-developed with UNICEF and Equimundo— is designed to provide guidance on effectively monitoring and evaluating parenting programmes that integrate violence prevention and gender-transformative approaches.📊
📄Read today: https://cutt.ly/hrghTUjf
Our new brief—co-developed with UNICEF and Equimundo— is designed to provide guidance on effectively monitoring and evaluating parenting programmes that integrate violence prevention and gender-transformative approaches.📊
📄Read today: https://cutt.ly/hrghTUjf
April 21, 2025 at 5:45 AM
📣 Calling all #ParentingPractitioners
Our new brief—co-developed with UNICEF and Equimundo— is designed to provide guidance on effectively monitoring and evaluating parenting programmes that integrate violence prevention and gender-transformative approaches.📊
📄Read today: https://cutt.ly/hrghTUjf
Our new brief—co-developed with UNICEF and Equimundo— is designed to provide guidance on effectively monitoring and evaluating parenting programmes that integrate violence prevention and gender-transformative approaches.📊
📄Read today: https://cutt.ly/hrghTUjf
Reposted by Lori Heise
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
The slippery slope toward USG/DOGE interference with independent non-profits has begun. We must stay vigilant.
The United States Institute of Peace is suing over DOGE’s “lawless assault” on the independent non-profit organization established by Congress.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The slippery slope toward USG/DOGE interference with independent non-profits has begun. We must stay vigilant.
Important editorial by @jocalynclark.bsky.social in this month's BMJ. She notes: "On 8 March, international women’s day,the NewYork Times reported that even the word “women” was being erased by US policies..."
March 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Important editorial by @jocalynclark.bsky.social in this month's BMJ. She notes: "On 8 March, international women’s day,the NewYork Times reported that even the word “women” was being erased by US policies..."