Gender Violence

Stronger Laws to Deter Acid Attacks on Women

By Ranjita Biswas
Preeti Rathi was just 25 years old when she passed away in a Mumbai hospital exactly a month after a man threw acid on her while she stood waiting on a railway platform.

U.N. Deploys Women Protection Advisers to Curb Sexual Violence

By Thalif Deen
Despite the United Nations' "zero tolerance" policy against sexual violence, there has been a rash of gender-based crimes in several of the world's conflict zones, including South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Northern Uganda, Somalia, the Central African Republic - and, more recently, in politically-troubled Egypt and Syria.

Need to Protect DRC’s School Girls from Sexual Assault

By Emmanuel Chaco
In some Democratic Republic of Congo schools, teachers and senior authorities are using their status to abuse girls who do not know their rights, according to the African Association for the Defence of Human Rights.

Children of Conflict

By Sudeshna Chowdhury
Malala Yousafzai and Muhammad Qasim have a lot in common.

Q&A: “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights”

By Joan Erakit
On Thursday, the international community recognises World Population Day, a time of assessment, discussion and projections for the future that necessarily gives great weight to the rights of women and girls and particularly their sexual and reproductive health.

Bigger Dangers Lurk Behind Berlusconi Scandal

By Silvia Giannelli
The scandal around the under-age prostitute that former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi allegedly had sex with is not about just that one girl: an estimated 10,000 under-age girls become victims of sexual exploitation every year in Italy.

OP-ED: Moving Forward to End Violence Against Women

By Lakshmi Puri
Last year, as rebels captured the main towns in Northern Mali, UN Women registered a sudden and dramatic increase of rapes in the first week of the takeover of Gao and Kidal, in places where most women never report this violence to anyone, not even health practitioners.

Egyptian Lawyer and Women’s Rights Advocate Wins RFK Award

By Jared Metzker
A prominent human rights organisation based here announced Tuesday that its annual award for 2013 would go to Ragia Omran, an Egyptian lawyer and women’s rights activist.

Acid Survivors Say Theirs Is a Fate Worse Than Death

By Ashfaq Yusufzai
Women in Pakistan are no strangers to horror. In this country of 176 million, about 90 percent of women have experienced domestic violence; every year, over 1,000 women are murdered in so-called ‘honour killings’. Two years ago, the Thomson Reuters Foundation named Pakistan the most dangerous country in the world for women and girls.

Q&A: Empower Indigenous Women to Assert Their Rights

By Silvia Romanelli
Women around the world are exposed to domestic violence, sexual and economic exploitation, gender-based violence, female genital mutilation and child marriage. For indigenous women and girls, however, the risk of being victims of such issues is especially high.

Rape in Brazil Still an Invisible Crime

By Fabíola Ortiz
Sexual violence against women is alarmingly under-reported and invisible in Brazil where, for example, there are no accurate, comparable data on rape in the country's 27 states.

No Quick Fixes to Sorcery-Related Violence

By Catherine Wilson
Following worldwide outrage over a spate of brutal sorcery-related murders in Papua New Guinea, the government has rolled out a new hard-line approach to spiralling crime in this southwest Pacific island state.

Indian Women Talk About Sex – in Cyberspace

By Ranjita Biswas
When 30-year-old Rita Datta (not her real name) decided on a whim to take a computer literacy course, she fell through the metaphoric looking glass into a virtual reality where the most taboo subject in India was transformed into the most simple and natural topic of conversation: sex.

Q&A: “The U.N. Is Too Slow to Respond to Crisis”

By Sudeshna Chowdhury
As the situation in Myanmar deteriorates, thousands of Rohingyas have fled the country in search of a safe haven.

BOOKS: The Brothel Next Door

By Silvia Romanelli
The underground sex trade is closer to our everyday world than we may think.

Courage to Combat Domestic Violence

By Catherine Wilson
Selina, a resident of a small community in Malaita, the most populous province in the Solomon Islands, watched in horror as a man standing on the road in front of her house tore the clothing off his wife, then beat her and inflicted wounds with a knife.

Nicaraguan Women May Have to Negotiate with their Abusers

By José Adán Silva
Conservative sectors in Nicaragua have launched an offensive against the Comprehensive Law Against Violence Toward Women, seeking amendments including an obligation for women victims to negotiate with their abusers, human rights groups reported.

The Long March Towards Abolition of War

By Thalif Deen
Slavery. Colonialism. Apartheid. Gender discrimination in voting. All were abolished in most places after longstanding battles - largely in bygone eras.

OP-ED: A Global Goal on Gender Equality, Women’s Rights and Women’s Empowerment

By Lakshmi Puri
Hardly a day goes by without a news story on some violation of women’s rights. In recent months, appalling incidents of violence against women and girls, from Delhi to Johannesburg to Cleveland, have sparked public outrage and demands to tackle these horrific abuses.

Tackling Crime Takes on Import As Urban Populations Rise

By Silvia Giannelli
As people around the world continue to migrate into cities, swelling urban populations, they have sparked growth in another area: crime and security issues.

Pressure Mounting on U.S. over Congo Violence

By Joe Hitchon
With casualties in the long-running conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) now surpassing every conflict since World War II, U.S. policymakers and advocates are stepping up campaigns to raise awareness and push legislation aimed at encouraging new negotiations, assisting in government reforms, and pressuring the neighbouring countries that have propped up the DRC’s government.
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