There are no Haitians in the Montreal neighborhood where Lovely lives.

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

WASHINGTON, Feb.

Britain's foreign minister William Hague has urged world leaders to make tackling and rape in armed conflicts a top g

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

Women from South America are lured into T&T and kept in “houses” as virtual slaves throughout T&T

Thousands of women in Nicaragua have taken to the streets to protest against legal changes that could push female vic

Laws to punish domestic violence are too often honoured in the breach

Preyed on by armed men at beauty pageants and at school gates and then raped. Forced into sex slavery.

The hot and damp jungles of southern Colombia have been torn apart by war for more than 20 years.

The long struggle for justice has come to a point of resolution this week as the High Impact Court “A”cou

Several brutal, high-profile murders of women in the last few weeks in El Salvador are just the latest reminder that

On Wednesday March 20, Rios Montt, the former president of Guatemala, went on trial for genocide and crimes against h

Last week, 35-year-old Carmen Virginia Tuez Franco was found murdered in Guatemala City alongside her niece Silvia Ma

When a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 – killing more than 200,000 people and leaving

Betty Puerto Barrera is a Colombian peace activist.

Fifteen brave Guatemalan women from the indigenous q'eqchí people testified before the High Risk Court in Guat

Margarita Lopez begins to speak about the horrible events that marked the end of her daughter's life in a low, even t

A decade after the last attempt to end Latin America's longest-running insurgency failed, the Colombian government an

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

Carla lost everything when she got pregnant at the age of 13: her first year of secondary school, her family, her boy

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