Everywhere I go there is a palpable sense of anger and sadness at the recent spate of abuse and killing of women and

Operation Protective Edge and the costs of war in the latest round of the Israel-Palestine conflict have dominated al

The UN says militant Islamist group Isis has ordered all women and girls in Mosul, northern Iraq, to undergo female g

The aspirations to achieve peace and reconciliation in Colombia were at the center of proposals in three regional for

On Tuesday July, 15, 2014, two of the United Nations System Agencies, the Joint Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) an

A court in Egypt has sentenced seven men to life in prison and two others to 20 years for sexual assaulting women las

ASMA, 14, was raped at gunpoint. Two soldiers attacked her as she looked for firewood in the forest.

Somali Ministry of Women and Human Rights in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund and United Nations

For anyone following the news from Pakistan, the past few weeks have made for grim reading when it comes to violence

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

World Bank Group's Board of Executive Directors has approved US$107 million in financial grants to the countries of B

The Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict Summit that took place in London Between 10 – 13 June 2014 was a great p

The scale of violence committed against women and girls, mostly by men, constitutes a global crisis affecting all peo

Time and again, we hear horrific accounts of violence perpetrated against women in conflicts around the world.

40 participants from Fiji, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, RMI, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu will gradua

Senior UN human rights officials at a UN Human Rights Council event have called for immediate efforts to end caste-ba

RWANDA, EASTERN AFRICA: To curb continuing cases of rape violence in Rwanda's refugee camps, the government of Rwanda

Year 2014 witnessed a steep rise in cases of harassment and molestation across the valley, and to protest against the

Sri Lanka says the country has taken concrete steps to address the issue of violence against women, in line with its

Year 2014 has so far witnessed a steep rise in cases of crime against women in valley.

A 100-page set of guidelines for the legal protection of the rights of women and children was launched by the Ministr

India has rebuffed accusations by a U.N.

The Global Summit To End Sexual Violence in Conflict is underway in London.

MANILA – “We are ready to share our experiences in the hopes of inspiring similar stories of success for