HALIFAX - First Nation leaders, women's groups, elders and youth today gathered in a Circle of Hope in Halifax today,

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

The 45-member U.N.

The documentation centre No habrá paz sin las mujeres [There will be no peace without women] enables female le

On 14 January 2014 the closing ceremony of the VII course on Women Leadership was held in the municipality of Antiguo

For those of you who have blocked out memory of the long battle to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act that wa

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.

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

Despite laws, resolutions, decrees, protocols, and directives against gender-based violence, women victims of sexual

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.