In the 2024 general election, the Labour Party promised to halve violence against women and girls (VAWG) within a decade.

This week Africa celebrates the 19th anniversary of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol), and the world begins the 16 ...

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 ...

Conflicts in Ethiopia have devastated communities, and the resulting loss of services and breakdown in social support systems have made it harder to access lifesaving gender-based violence response ...

People I have spoken to in Aceh often said that the tsunami of December 2004 brought peace to their community. Despite the significant losses suffered in the disaster, it led to the restoration of ...

A shadow pandemic lurks in homes, workplaces, and communities worldwide: gender-based violence. It affects nearly one billion women and girls globally. While looking at this figure as simply a ...

Genevieve LeBaron receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Humanity United Foundation, and Ford Foundation. Judy Fudge does not work for, consult, own ...

GENDER-based violence refers to harmful acts committed against individuals because of their gender. It is often attributed to well-entrenched power imbalances between genders, commonly men exploiting ...

As a sexual and domestic violence victim advocate, years ago, I supported women during invasive forensic exams, while they filed police reports, and when they dialed into our crisis hotline. I'll ...

In May 2020, Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a 22-year-old microbiology student at the University of Benin went to her local church to study in what she thought was a safe environment. Tragically, she was ...