A recent discussion among legal and human rights experts has exposed the alarming scale of obstetric violence in Africa, a crisis that contributes to the continent’s disproportionately high maternal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Participants hold hands as they lie on the ground during a gender-based violence protest at the forecourt of the botanical gardens ...

South Africa's move to classify gender-based violence and femicide as a national disaster raises expectations for urgent action. South Africa has a femicide rate that is five times higher than the ...

At the command of a female instructor, a line of girls and women, some wearing pink ear protectors, shoot five rounds at a ...

Cities are often seen as hotspots of violence, with the assumption that larger cities are inherently more violent than smaller ones. This "universal law" of urban scaling has long shaped scientific ...

Violence against women and girls in Africa demands urgent action. As of 2023, it is estimated that one in three women and girls between ages 15 and 49, have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate ...

Pre-Trump government reports of human rights abuses in South Africa help lend credibility to President Donald Trump‘s claims that white South African refugees, farmers in particular, do face ...

President Donald Trump’s recent interventions on South Africa have been met with outrage in the liberal media, and its ‘fact-checking’ machinery has been put into overdrive scrutinizing every ...

FREETOWN/ MONROVIA, Nov 30 (UNHCR) - Barely emerging from years of civil conflict, two countries in West Africa are waging a new war - a battle to eradicate all forms of violence against women. Last ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Hundreds of women wearing black gathered in a Johannesburg park on Friday, one day before the start of the Group of 20 summit, to stage a 15-minute lie-down protest symbolizing the ...