Gender-based violence (GBV) affects women and girls the most, especially during times of crisis or emergency. War, being forced to leave home and poverty make gender-based violence more likely and ...
Editor's note: Today Global Sisters Report launches "Out of the Shadows: Confronting Violence Against Women," a yearlong series on the ways Catholic sisters are responding to this global phenomenon.
Dar es Salaam. Activists have renewed calls for the government to amend outdated laws, especially aspects of customary law they say underpin much gender‑based violence, as cases continue to rise, ...
On Feb. 20, the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and Dartmouth Dialogues co-hosted attorney, women’s rights activist and Brandeis University professor Anita Hill for the final event of the 2024 ...
We believe survivors. The Women's Center is committed to ending gender-based violence on this and every campus. We support our colleagues at the Center for Awareness, Response, and Education who serve ...
BAOBAB and the Clinic for Human Rights at OAU have launched an 8-week Virtual Institute to train women leaders in sexual ...
Illinois became the first state to end cash bail in 2021, replacing it with a risk assessment system to determine a person's ...
Gates and daughters join 14 other families to address three critical issues globally: maternal health, sexual and ...
Spain’s government on Tuesday proposed a new law on gender-based violence making it a separate crime when an abuser hurts ...
When Aminata Soucko arrived in Spain from Mali she was like a prisoner. Unable to speak the language and trapped at home by a violent husband whom she had been forced to marry, Aminata was desperate ...