While women’s inheritance and property ownership are protected by the Lebanese Constitution, inheritance laws differ based on religion and sect, leaving disputes to religious courts and personal interpretations — and biases — of those laws
Like all crimes, sexual violence must be understood within the broader context in which it occurs.
Since the collapse of the Lebanese Pound in 2019, social workers in Beirut say that migrants and Lebanese alike have turned to the sex trade to cope with the increased costs of living.
For over 20 years, women have suffered under the rule of the Taliban.
War has been raging for 11 months in Sudan. Amid the horrific wave of violence that has led many people to flee West Darfur, women and girls have described being raped, beaten, detained, and forced to witness the killings of loved ones by groups of armed men.
Between 1996 and 2000, former President Alberto Fujimori oversaw a family planning program under which more than 280,000 women and men were sterilized in Peru — mainly in poor, rural areas. Decades later, victims are still awaiting justice.
Around 70 percent of those killed in Gaza the last few months have been women and children, with two mothers killed every hour, and one child estimated to be killed every 10 minutes, according to UN sources.
There is plenty of warranted criticism of the New York Times investigation into sexual violence on October 7, but for all the exposé’s ethical shortcomings, its greatest failure was its lack of consideration for the safety, trauma, and dignified treatment of the victims.
In the last decade, an estimated 15,000 women across the globe have been accused of abducting their own children. They are all foreigners who tried to relocate with their children — oftentimes back to their home countries — but the other parent disagreed. Not all countries criminalize abduction, but the repercussions for the child’s custody are far-reaching.
The global attention of the #MeToo movement prompted the aid sector to acknowledge its own #AidToo crisis, but, half a decade later, the spotlight has dimmed, and sadly, the aid sector has seen minimal substantive changes.
It may surprise many that women like Farida — who once dreamed of being a nurse — would join a violent extremist group, but their reasons are varied and complex. And it takes a holistic state response not only to stop them from joining but also to pull them out.
After nearly two years since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the unchecked exploitation of Ukrainian women abroad — who are still displaced in different European countries, as well as internally, in Ukraine — is poised to create a crisis of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.
The family of a slain Afghan journalist has founded an organization to provide resources and refuge to reporters still working in the country.
Villagers often work in the mines, one of the only employers in Budhpura, and nearly all of them are eventually diagnosed with silicosis, a fatal and incurable lung disease. With their husbands gone and no alternative income sources to support themselves and their children, widows join the same profession that killed their husbands.
In most present-day Igbo communities, caste ranking is a core concern for both families and couples.
The recent earthquakes in western Afghanistan and ongoing aftershocks have been devastating.
Despite early hopes for progress, the report that came out of the gathering mentioned neither LGBTIQ+ people nor the question of the ordination of women.
A Colombian peace court is opening a new legal case that could bring justice for the first time to thousands of victims of gender-based crimes committed by the FARC and the military during decades of bitter conflict.
The risk of intimate partner violence is consistently higher among women living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa than among those living without it — even for pregnant women, who are often first informed of their status during prenatal screenings.
Organizations that provide services and information have reported digital suppression of abortion information: “The Fight for Abortion Access Is Moving Online.”
The effects of a series of earthquakes measuring a 6.3 magnitude that hit Afghanistan in early October have been devastating.
Sexual wellness advocates are starting to change conversations and attitudes around sex.
The Taliban's decrees over the past two years have resulted in the severe marginalization of women and girls in all aspects of Afghan society, which they exploit to gain attention on the global stage.
Despite challenges, women-only cab service providers are hopeful that they can continue to expand.
At long last, same-sex marriage could soon be recognized under Indian law. As of April 18 of this year, a total of 18 petitions have now been introduced to the high court to legalize same-sex marriage.
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