For more than 40 years, the non-profit Children of the Night has been helping young people leave prostitution. As Genia Dulot reports from Los Angeles, the group’s founder, Lois Lee, started working with minors while in college
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in cuts in foreign aid from donors such as the United Kingdom, which cut its aid budget by $5.5 billion this month, affecting those on the ground in Africa. The loss of financing is felt in Burkina Faso, where it may force the closure of a nonprofit that assists thousands of survivors of gender-based violence and rape
A Proposed Law Intends To Ban South Africans From Obtaining Self-Defense Handgun Licences. While Gun Critics Believe That Restricting Gun Access Has Reduced The Death Toll, Gun Supporters Warn That Getting Firearms Out Of The Hands Of Some People, Particularly Women, Will Exacerbate What South Africa’s President Has Dubbed A “Second Pandemic” Of Gender-Based Violence
Honor killings occur often in India, as they do in Pakistan. In India, honour killings have become a social problem.The state of Haryana has a poor track record of violating women’s human rights
Botswana’s lawmakers recently formed a committee to solve the issue and intend to create a sex offenders register, despite the country’s high and rising rate of rape cases
Women living in Iranian cities say they face frequent sexual harassment, catcalls, and verbal abuse — and many fear that those incidents mean they’re not safe from violent crimes. Though street harassment is illegal, the law is rarely enforced and few victims are able to prove that a crime has taken place
A telecoms company in South Africa launched a free mobile phone application last year to support targets of gender-based violence (GBV), which soared during the coronavirus pandemic
Russian help lines have recorded a surge in domestic violence during the year of COVID-19 restrictions
A man was arrested for domestic violence yesterday, March 14, by the Loures Division of the Public Security Police, in Santa Iria da Azóia, in the municipality of Loures, in the district of Lisbon, in Portugal. The victim, because of the severity of the burns to which she was subjected, needed medical care
About 52 percent of women in Afghanistan have experienced violence in their homes, according to the World Health Organization