Women’s rights advocates are celebrating the reactivation of a 2015 senate bill that makes gender-based killings, or “femicide,” a special circumstance in Uruguay.
What can a game of Snakes and Ladders teach a child about violence? It turns out a lot. A recent study shows that a new gender equity program in Indian schools can transform not only how students respond to gender discrimination and violence, but how their teachers, parents and communities do as well.
In Argentina, policymakers are coming up with new legislation to crack down on the relentlessly high level of gender-based violence, but many experts say the real hurdle is finding effective ways to implement the laws.
Women and girls fleeing the brutal Islamist group Boko Haram are not finding safety in camps for displaced people. The Nigerian soldiers and police who are supposed to protect them are raping and sexually assaulting them, according to Human Rights Watch.
After decades of of civil conflict, Sri Lanka is experiencing an increase in violence against women, demanding extra efforts of activists.
South Sudan says it is taking seriously allegations by the United Nations that South Sudanese soldiers committed atrocities against women…
Sudanese soldiers raped more than 200 women and girls in Darfur last October, says Human Rights Watch. A systematic attack…
The fight against sexual violence in India has a new ally – a comic book superhero. Priya, a gang-rape survivor,…
When the uniformed men started separating the Muslims from the Christians, she knew they were not police officers. The blockade,…
An estimated 120 million girls are sexually abused by their twentieth birthday. That means roughly one out of every ten…