Gender-based violence (GBV) affects women and girls the most, especially during times of crisis or emergency. War, being forced to leave home and poverty make gender-based violence more likely and ...

Editor's note: Today Global Sisters Report launches "Out of the Shadows: Confronting Violence Against Women," a yearlong series on the ways Catholic sisters are responding to this global phenomenon.

Traditional and cultural leaders from across Africa have pledged to intensify efforts to combat gender-based violence, GBV. The pledge was made on Monday ...

Gender-based violence is nothing new. But its methods are evolving faster than our awareness. While there has been progress in understanding and treating domestic violence, sexual assault, and other ...

African traditional leaders commit to community-driven action to prevent gender-based violence at a high-level conference in ...

The governor said Lagos State has responded through policies, laws and institutions, including the Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency.

African cultural leaders and policymakers convene in Lagos to strategize against gender-based violence, aiming for cultural ...

As gender-based violence organizations and shelters in Nova Scotia grapple with rising demand, a new wellness project is ...

NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County in East Flatbush launches Kings CARES, a new program providing centralized medical, forensic and social support for survivors of domestic and gender-based violence.

For centuries, women worldwide have experienced violence in their homes at the hands of intimate partners with no or very little legal recourse. I witnessed this firsthand. In 1990, when I worked at a ...

Marlene MinopetrosA writing workshop in the Northern Cape town of Ritchie is using personal storytelling as a way for residents to engage with issues of gender-based violence and social inequality.The ...