Bangladesh's rights leaders have joined in the call of the neighbouring India for an end to crimes against women.

Several Gender Based Violence (GBV) campaigners, predominately women, have made a commitment to continue the fight by

The Liberian journalist who wrote about the practice of female circumcision, or genital mutilation (FGM), and its hea

A horrific gang rape of a young woman on a bus in India on Sunday underscores the rising tide of sexual violence fema

It's a country the size of all of western Europe, with enormous mineral riches that enable the artifacts of modern li

Marching on Pretoria's Union Buildings in protest of marginalization and mistreatment under apartheid in 1956, 20,000

Zainab Bangura has taken over one of the United Nations' most thankless top positions: tackling a world's worth of ho

Thousands of people who have fled some of the world's most dangerous countries are being forced into destitution, beg

Scores of Malians have found havens in neighbouring Mauritania to escape the months-long conflict.

In Egypt, domestic abuse is not a crime. When a woman is beaten by her husband, the authorities are seldom called.

The Commissioner of Yei County in South Sudan's Central Equatoria State, Juma David Augustine, said on Tuesday that h

On Sunday November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the start of the annual 1

The UN Women Executive Director, Michelle Bachelet has called on governments to employ effective means to fight viole

The situation has been very tense at Panzi Hospital since the assassination attempt on Doctor Denis Mukwege that forc

The president of Medecins Sans Frontieres pressed Papua New Guinea's new government to address its epidemic levels of

“What about the women who were raped who were depending on Dr.

Ana Angelica Bello, 45, was coming out of the Ministry of Justice in 2009 when two men bundled her into a car, put a

For three decades the scars branded onto Kim Khem's arms have been a reminder of the sexual torture she saw under the

A Nobel-prize nominated Congolese gynecologist said on Tuesday he is too scared to return to his native Congo after a

Other districts are Lahore, Okara, Sargodha, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Sialkot, Gujrat, DG Khan, Pakpattan, Muzaffargar

Activists said the provincial government should appoint an ombudsperson to redress women's complaints against harassm

Afghan women's safety activists say a new partnership with religious leaders can help stop Taliban attacks on girls a

The news that the Taliban gunned down a schoolgirl last week shocked the world, but not a young woman named Noorjahan