Legislation supporting victims of gender-based violence was passed requiring cosmetology establishments to display ...

Thousands of South Africans have changed their social media profiles to purple in a powerful wave of digital solidarity with ...

Mónica Pérez* met her first boyfriend when she was 16, not long after she stepped off a bus in the Colombian border city of Cúcuta. When she discovered she was pregnant, her boyfriend started to hit ...

An expert on gender safety, Mrs Falda Wesley, said research backs the reality that nine out of every ten girls would have faced one form of gender-based violence (GBV) or another in their life. Wesley ...

Members of the SAPS, Midvaal Traffic Department, CPF, patrollers, and NGOs stood together against GBV during the district-wide operation.

A civil society coalition — the State of Emergency GBV (SoGBV) movement — has called on the federal and state governments to put more effort to protect women and children at Internally Displaced (IDP) ...

In Africa, cultural factors have been blamed for contributing to most cases given that most African societies are patriarchal. [Courtesy] It was a normal day at work when a news update came through ...

The report is to assess state governments' efforts across five core indicators: laws and policies, access to legal justice, support services, information and awareness, and budget and spending.The ...

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has urged South Africans to take ownership of the fight against gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF), saying the issue must be addressed collectively by the ...

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 ...