The 45-member U.N.

The NDP is joining forces with the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) to urge the Conservative government to

Washington — The Obama administration is redoubling its efforts to end gender violence in the United States, as

While recent attention has focused on the absurd remarks U.S.

As they gather in Tampa for their 2012 Convention, Republican politicians and party operatives continue to be plagued

Eqlima is a young girl from Afghanistan. She lived with an abusive father and stepmother who often beat her.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a powerful plea on Sunday for the rights of women in Afghanistan, using a

Female farmworkers across the United States are commonly sexually harassed and assaulted, in part because their immig

Barbara Gove served as a Marine at Parris Island and Cherry Point in the mid-nineteen-fifties.

Opposition to the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) has some who advocate for victims of domestic abuse scratching th

As part of her floor speech pushing to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) on Wednesday, Rep.

Protecting women from violence and abuse has been an issue of bipartisan cooperation since President Clinton signed t

Half of all peace accords signed in the last 20 years have failed—and one reason is that they were left to men.

When President Obama introduced new legislation to combat domestic violence in October 2011, the U.S.

"My experience reporting military sexual assault was worse than the actual assault," says Jessica (a pseudo

Washington - The United States said on Wednesday it was "gravely disturbed" about the mass rape of women in

When checking the nuclear ambitions of dictators or building “democracy” in Baghdad, po

Jess Smochek arrived in Bangladesh in 2004 as a 23-year-old Peace Corps volunteer with dreams of teaching English and

The United States Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) announced $6.9 million in awards to 23

A woman was allegedly raped on the floor of a deserted airport concourse while two janitors walked past - and did not

Despite decades of official attention, women in the military face pervasive sexism and surprisingly frequent sexual a

In a bid to address sexual crimes within the American defence forces more effectively, the United States Air Force wi

A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday charges the Defense Department with responsibility for rape and sexual assault in the

Robin Levi has a simple point of view when it comes to violence against women in the United States and what the gover