Everywhere I go there is a palpable sense of anger and sadness at the recent spate of abuse and killing of women and

Operation Protective Edge and the costs of war in the latest round of the Israel-Palestine conflict have dominated al

Too often the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is reduced to ‘the rape capital of the world,' a tragic title

The Convention on the Elimination of Violence against Women is still missing, but progress on other dimensions of thi

On Tuesday July, 15, 2014, two of the United Nations System Agencies, the Joint Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) an

A court in Egypt has sentenced seven men to life in prison and two others to 20 years for sexual assaulting women las

ASMA, 14, was raped at gunpoint. Two soldiers attacked her as she looked for firewood in the forest.

Gender-based violence, sexually transmitted infections including HIV, and maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidi

Women in Syria have been arbitrarily arrested and detained, physically abused, harassed, and tortured during Syria's

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AUTHORITIES will crack down on forced marriages, female genital mutilation and the abuse of migrant spouses under a n

The Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict Summit that took place in London Between 10 – 13 June 2014 was a great p

The scale of violence committed against women and girls, mostly by men, constitutes a global crisis affecting all peo

Time and again, we hear horrific accounts of violence perpetrated against women in conflicts around the world.

What started as a normal day for an ordinary young woman here in Libya turned into a nightmare when a security guard

Colombia's president has approved a law that makes acts of sexual violence committed during the country's long-standi

Female genital mutilation, the excision of the clitoris practised widely in African and many Muslim countries, is a m

RWANDA, EASTERN AFRICA: To curb continuing cases of rape violence in Rwanda's refugee camps, the government of Rwanda

Year 2014 witnessed a steep rise in cases of harassment and molestation across the valley, and to protest against the

Sri Lanka says the country has taken concrete steps to address the issue of violence against women, in line with its