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

In a year when Latin America was swept with protests against gender-based violence from Mexico to Chile, the Encuentro de Mujeres que Luchan, organized by the Zapatista community, welcomed some 4,000 women to the Chiapaneco highlands to unite in transnational feminist solidarity and confront the global crisis of violence against women.

Zimbabwe's maternal mortality crisis is pushing the debate on abortion, but the current economic crisis and stigma stand in the way of legalization.

Burmese women are critical to understanding a country whose people have endured systematic violence and repression for far too long. They can’t be forgotten.

As the #MeToo movement steadily grows throughout Mexico, with thousands of actions, collectives, and ongoing projects in operation throughout the country, women are finding their power to fight back and build a society in which their lives are not in constant danger.

Women Under Siege discussed the disproportionate impact of the occupation on women with Kashmir scholars Ather Zia, founder of Kashmir Lit and co-founder of the Critical Kashmir Studies Collective, and Nitasha Kaul, a poet, novelist, artist, and associate professor of politics and international relations at the University of Westminster.

Zimbabwe's economic crisis has forced women working in informal setups to the fringes, where they're often rendered vulnerable to physical and sexualized violence.

Spain's Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) party may have won in the country's general elections in April, and in European elections in May, but the threat of anti-abortion, anti-immigration, and anti-feminist party Vox looms large across the country, especially for Spain's women, who have so much more to lose than to gain.

Decades after Guatemala's 36-year internal armed conflict, 36 Maya Achi women are seeking justice against the soldiers who raped them and the officials who gave them the orders.

It's tempting for Western audiences to believe that cell phones beget rape in Congo, but the real root causes of mass sexualized violence in the country require more nuance than that.

As Congress deliberates ratifying the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019, Women Under Siege spoke with Mihrigul Tursun, a Uighur refugee, about her experience at what she describes as an "ethnic cleansing camp" for Uighurs in China's Xinjiang region.

Brazil has maintained its place as first among countries with the highest murder rate of trans and gender-diverse peoples. In a country that remains deeply conservative and religious, and under a president who has openly targeted the LGBTQ community to "rescue our values," Brazil's trans community especially is fighting to exist, freely, openly, and safely.

If women have historically been silenced and ignored about experiences of conflict-related sexual violence, the inverse is now true: survivors are being pressured to share their stories, emphasizing heinous details of sexual abuse and little else.

Organized criminal gangs displaced hundreds of families from their homes in the mountains of Guerrero state, Mexico. It's the women—mothers, grandmothers, aunties, and sisters alike—who are keeping their communities together.

The Trump administration’s latest use of domestic politics to hold international rights hostage will cost women's lives.

Only a paltry number of women conflict photographers are in the field compared to men, which means that men are largely shaping our understanding of war.

Several women had reported being raped by security forces during the government crackdown on protests in January. Since then, no formal investigations have been undertaken; no formal independent complaints mechanism has been established; and the outrage has dissipated.

As the number of cases of attempted kidnappings in metro stations mount, feminist civil society is fighting to create a safe city for women, against the inefficacy of law enforcement and a city government that appear ill-equipped to address the daily reality of violence committed against them in public.

Sexual harassment and bullying of women have long been commonplace in Nigeria’s bustling markets. Now, women are leading the charge to change its culture.

A year after Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman Marielle Franco's murder, justice remains elusive, but her life and work live on with her supporters.

Two years after the Hogar Virgen de la Asunción orphanage fire in Guatemala, which killed 41 teenaged girls, the truth is still coming to light, and it's far more sinister with every detail.

As Venezuela spirals from rampant hyperinflation and violent political clashes, a health crisis has stricken the South American country, it’s the most vulnerable migrants—children, babies and pregnant women—who are being hit the hardest.

In January 2019, Brazil's newly-elected president Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree relaxing restrictions on gun ownership, a move that could endanger women further in a country ranked first in the world for firearm mortality and fifth for femicides.

From grandmother to granddaughters, the Yepes women use "conscious rap" to retake their community in Medellín from the image and legacy of Pablo Escobar.

Why women remain outside the doors of political power is more nuanced than simply attributing it to sexism.