The creation of gender-segregated spaces to ensure women’s safety does not address the root causes of violence.
In addition to releasing the viral video, the group of survivors are demanding action from Attorney General Pam Bondi as well as backing new proposed legislation to facilitate legal accountability for perpetrators.
The federal Office for Civil Rights has closed offices, abandoned many Title IX complainants, and opened investigations that align with the current administration’s political priorities. Students in need of redress must turn to alternative routes to demand accountability.
Victims of military domestic violence are filing claims against the Pentagon for damage, injury, and death.
State actions to deny access to abortion show the same patterns of coercive control that women experience in domestic violence.
The United States joins about 80 other countries that have developed national plans; the Biden administration hopes that it will also be used to guide state and local policies.
In the wake of the Senate investigation, the Justice Department may expand compassionate release to victims and survivors of sexual abuse in federal prisons.
Thursday marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, which kicks off the 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence in a year in which women have taken to the streets to protest rising violence and lack of state protection.
Demands to address gender-based violence have escalated after a social media movement and a brutal murder.
The bipartisan bill, part of the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization, would be the first to outlaw the distribution of private intimate visual depictions without consent.
When police presence increases in response to incidents of violence, who will protect women from police?
As Biden calls for a review of enforcement guidelines, advocates are pushing the administration to do more than just repair Trump-era harms.
‘Broken: Seeking Justice’ and ‘Canary’ show how journalists cover sexual assault — and podcasts’ potential for rebuilding trust.
Protests erupted this week in response to a new abortion ban, but the government has been attacking women’s and LGBTQ rights for years.
As the global pandemic enters its eighth month, the impact on those experiencing domestic violence has continued to intensify, and services are stretched to the limit.
Medical nonprofit Medecins Sans Frontieres announced it is suspending its maternity ward operations in a Kabul, Afghanistan, hospital in the wake of the systematic killing of 16 women in the ward. All the women were mothers or soon to be.
Countries like Spain, France, the UK, Argentina, and Norway have devised schemes that allow women to seek help without alerting their partners.
The coronavirus pandemic has led to a massive surge in child abuse material being uploaded, according to a story from the Fuller Project for International Reporting co-published with the UK Telegraph.
In Australia, a government-supported initiative that provides “safe phones” to women stuck in violent homes is seeing a serious uptick in requests attributed to the virus, the Thomson Reuters Foundation reported Wednesday.
Although media attention to the problem has waned, the harsh reality is that between 64,000 and 75,000 Black women and girls are currently missing in the U.S.
A shocking new report from Women for Refugee Women, a UK-based nonprofit, says one-third of women they interviewed who had been raped or sexually assaulted in their home countries have faced further rape or sexual abuse while destitute in the UK.
A study published Wednesday confirms “extensive direct links” between environmental pressures and gender-based violence.
A court in India issued a death warrant Tuesday for four men convicted of gang-raping a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in 2012. They are set to be hanged on January 22.
Korean women are still—nearly 75 years later—fighting to gain restitution from the country that forced them into sexual slavery, despite a “final and irreversible” deal reached between Korea and Japan in 2015.
While Harvey Weinstein’s accusers are figuring out whether to take a proposed multimillion-dollar settlement, Japan’s version of Harvey Weinstein has been ordered to pay just 3.3 million yen ($30,000) in damages in a very public rape case.