Kering Foundation Launches Research Program on Intersectionality of Violence Against Women and Children

The Kering Foundation has initiated a new, multi-year research program aimed at deeply understanding the complex intersections of violence against women and children. This initiative is undertaken in partnership with McGill University in Canada and the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI).

The program's core objective is to promote evidence-based, locally-led research that illuminates how violence against women and violence against children relate and overlap. This understanding is intended to foster the development of more effective interventions and programs to combat this violence.

Through McGill University, the program will also focus on training doctoral and postdoctoral fellows. Research efforts will encompass studies on social policies for preventing domestic violence and child abuse, as well as international projects concerning children's rights within family care settings.

SVRI, in turn, will support young researchers from low- and middle-income countries through fellowships and capacity building, with a specific emphasis on evidence generation at the intersection of violence against women and children. They will also foster locally-led research that is grounded in the realities of people's lives.

François-Henri Pinault, Chairman of the Kering Foundation, expressed his pleasure in launching this new research program, which leverages the expertise of two specialized organizations in both foundational research and the dissemination of locally-rooted solutions to end violence.