When a Telegram group called “Public Room” was discovered sharing private images and contact information of countless women and girls from across North Macedonia without their consent, the outrage was swift, but authorities' lackluster response to online crimes against women signals a critical need for more protections — and better enforcement.
The Mexico City government erected barricades around the National Palace of Government as a "wall of peace" intended to protect the historic building ahead of the 8M International Women’s Day protest on March 8, 2021. It did not go well.
The UN fact-finding mission on Venezuela documented physical and sexualized violence committed against women and girls who took part in anti-government protests, or who were perceived as dissidents, as activists and journalists are actively targeted by security forces under the Nicolas Maduro regime.
A father holds hands with his daughter, a survivor of sexualized violence during Kosovo’s 1998-1999 war for independence. Twenty-two years later, she is among thousands of survivors of systemic rape still awaiting justice.
Beneath the film's pastel coloring, neon signage, and pop music remixes lies a grim deconstruction of rape culture, and how those afflicted by it attempt to heal from it.
Iran is on the verge of passing a landmark law that will take action to outlaw sexual violence against women.
The ongoing sexual violence toward Asian women is undeniably linked to widespread, hypersexualized stereotypes that have stripped Asian women of their personhood and individuality.
When Cyclone Winston ravaged the island nation of Fiji in 2016, it came with 185-mile-per-hour winds and a massive storm surge that displaced thousands, and took away the livelihoods of thousands more. Amid the downed palm trees and debris, people became hungry and desperate.
Use our climate map to investigate the impact of climate change across the world on those it affects most: women, people of color, and indigenous and LGBTQ people.
While protests have seen unprecedented participation by young women, they have also been mired by sexual and gender-based violence against young women by the police. It is time for the international community to heed the call of Hong Kong-based activists and hold the government to account for this human rights crisis.
A cocktail of structural barriers with law enforcement and throughout the judicial process — such as drawn-out, humiliating investigations and trials — ensures that justice for victims remains evasive.
Media coverage of sexual violence in India, both domestically and globally, has ignored the vast majority of rapes. Obscured from public view by the media, those stories that don’t make national and global headlines face near-insurmountable hurdles to justice.
A new movement has sparked public discourse among Iranian women as they take to social media with their own #MeTooIran moments.
The Al Hassan case has the potential to shine light on the unique harm perpetrators commit against individuals based on their gender, which enforces patriarchal social norms and increases the potency of their crimes. It could also chart a path forward for international criminal law to define gender.
Cases under India’s Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act are meant to be fast-tracked, but the reality of the judicial system's backlog often means that those cases can drag on for years. One of Delhi's most infamous and horrific rape cases is among them. Amid the long slog of court appearances, postponements — and now, the pandemic — a child victim grows up.
My parents married me off to my aunt’s husband, much in the way I’d seen other girls my age married off to older men in our Johanne Marange Apostolic Church community at home in Bikita.
Despite their disproportionate vulnerability, the Indian government has largely ignored commercially sexually exploited people in its response to the coronavirus pandemic.
“On the Record” focuses on empowering Black women in the #MeToo movement.
An interview from Asha Dahya’s book 'Today’s Wonder Women: Everyday Superheroes Who Are Changing the World'. Asha Dahya is a survivor of child marriage.
Last August, India's Hindu nationalist government scrapped Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian constitution, stripping the state of Jammu & Kashmir of its special constitutional status. What followed is only the latest chapter in a documented history of sexualized violence by security forces as a means to quell dissent in Muslim-majority Kashmir.
In early 2018, the story of a baby who was raped by a relative sent shockwaves around the world. Two years later, the world has moved on, but she is no closer to receiving justice.
These three categories — sexual projets, sexual citizenship, and sexual geographies — comprise a radically new framework for thinking about sex.
More must be done to ensure that the most intimate yet essential needs of women and young girls around the world are met during this crisis.
Safe BAE reminded us of the need for change in society, as well as the value of being an advocate for that change.
Bryant’s athletic prowess does not entitle him to the cultural benefit of the doubt, placing his protection over that of his alleged victim.