Los talibanes prohibieron a las mujeres viajar más de 70 km sin la compañía de un hombre
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Las nuevas disposiciones también prohíben poner música en los vehículos Las autoridades talibanes de Afganistán dijeron el domingo que a...


Best of 2021: Human traffickers prey on Rohingya refugees
In Bangladesh’s refugee camps, people are lured by dreams of a better life and of meeting family to take a ruinously expensive and...


A Peace Corps worker killed a woman in Africa. The U.S. helped him escape prosecution.
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania – An American Peace Corps employee in Tanzania in 2019 killed a mother of three and injured two others in a...


Genocidal rape is a peril of conflict we must not ignore
Most rapes are not the result of the by-products of a conflict, but a pre-planned strategy to commit genocide. Rape as an instrument of...


Latin American Women Spearhead Campaigns Against Gendered Violence
In the global struggle against gendered violence, Latin American women are key changemakers. With rates of gender-based violence...

An Indonesian girl’s gang rape and murder sparked calls for change. Things only got worse
BENGKULU, Indonesia — She keeps a pile of her daughter’s belongings in a corner of her bedroom: report cards, notebooks wrapped with...


What happened to the emergency UN money promised for gender-based violence?
‘It makes you question the transparency of how these funds are actually disbursed.’ Twelve months ago, UN Secretary-General António...


Mozambique: Hundreds of Women, Girls Abducted
ISIS-Linked Militants Should Free Captives; Authorities Should Assist Survivors (Johannesburg) – An armed group linked to the Islamic...

Leaving Gender Out of Genocide Obscures Its Horror
As the 1948 Genocide Convention makes clear, killing isn’t the only crime. More than 75 years after the Holocaust’s horrors, the solemn...


Yazidi genocide: landmark guilty verdict for IS jihadi could transform how atrocities are brought to
The genocide verdict brought recently by a German court against an Iraqi member of Islamic State for crimes including the murder of a...