Gender-Based Violence (GBV) represents a critical barrier to development globally. It is the most extreme manifestation of gender inequality and the most prevalent form of violence worldwide, ...

We also found that security in student accommodation was a concern. At some institutions, residences have unsecured entry points, making them easily accessible to intruders. Our research shows that ...

Thanks to the efforts of feminists, trade unionists, and human rights activists, violence against women, once a normalized practice, is now widely acknowledged as a human rights violation – including ...

Veronica remembers feeling enraged when she heard José María Llanos, a leader from Spain’s far right Vox party from Valencia, openly declare last month that “gender-based violence against women ...

Xiaoqing Yu is the World Bank Country Director for the Western Balkans. This opinion piece was originally published in Bosnian by Forbes BiH, in Albanian by Panorama.com.al, and in Montenegrin by ...

Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime has sent some women to prison to protect them from the threat of gender-based violence, a United Nations report released Thursday said. Taliban authorities told the ...

Gender-based violence and harassment are high in some Nigerian workplaces due to non-ratification, adoption and domestication of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention 190 on ...

Across the world, healthcare workers experience workplace violence, which can differ by gender, seniority, and the type of workplace, according to a recent study. An analysis found that men were more ...

Conflicts in Ethiopia have devastated communities, and the resulting loss of services and breakdown in social support systems have made it harder to access lifesaving gender-based violence response ...

When Aminata Soucko arrived in Spain from Mali she was like a prisoner. Unable to speak the language and trapped at home by a violent husband whom she had been forced to marry, Aminata was desperate ...