As reports of domestic and sexualized violence surge under lockdown in Nigeria, NGOs and government agencies must adapt their responses to meet the challenge.

Rallies across Nigeria's northern states push for protections for victims of sexual and gender-based violence, led by young women who are challenging the roles they occupy in a deeply conservative society.

A spoken-word performance takes aim at the pervasiveness of gender-based violence in South Africa, inspiring community activism from the grassroots and demanding that the government confront its failure to protect women.

Now in its third year, the Aurat March is raising the call of Pakistan's women to abolish systems built on hegemony, patriarchy, and neo-colonialism.

Continuous attacks by machete-wielding gangs against artisanal miners in Zimbabwe disproportionately affect women miners, highlighting longstanding impediments for women to access the sector and threatening the government's target for an annual mining revenue of $12 billion by 2023.

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.

The loss of resources, support systems, and general safety puts survivors at risk of further abuse.

Almost six months since it was first performed, “Un Violador en Tu Camino” (“A Rapist in Your Path”) has become a universal feminist anthem that has crossed borders, languages, and cultures.

While murder rates are falling in Brazil, femicide rates continue to steadily climb, and with President Jair Bolsonaro at the helm, there are no promising signs of the violence abating.

In Mexico's northeastern state of Nuevo León, young feminists are creating their own safe spaces to share, bond and mobilize, and demand an end to the country's pervasive gender-based violence.

Months after Turkish forces launched an offensive in the Rojava region, which some have likened to genocide, a rise in miscarriages sheds light on the unseen impacts of the occupation.

While Venezuela reels from its ongoing political and humanitarian crises, attacks against members of the press, and particularly women journalists, have become especially acute.