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 ...

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 ...

Across the world, more than 60 million women and girls who are forcibly displaced or stateless face high risks of gender-based violence. While gender-based violence remains one of the most pervasive ...

Gender-based violence (GBV) remains one of the most widespread human rights violations in the world, including in Ukraine. The Russian full-scale invasion in February 2022 has significantly increased ...

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 ...

Gender-based violence in Africa is often treated as a legal, social or policing problem. But these responses don’t fully ...

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.