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 ...

Thirty years ago, a new law transformed the way the United States recognizes and combats gender-based violence. The Violence Against Women Act, signed by President Bill Clinton on Sept. 13, 1994, was ...

For centuries, women worldwide have experienced violence in their homes at the hands of intimate partners with no or very ...

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 ...

Lisa Boucher receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Women and Gender Equality Canada. The COVID-19 pandemic brought renewed attention to the rising ...

In a poem about seeking asylum, Warsan Shire writes, “No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.” As individuals around our state take stock of the election results, ...

Gender-based violence (GBV) is present in every society around the world and takes many forms. We have a moral imperative to stop all forms of violence against women and girls. In crisis, whether ...