Search results for Gender-based-violence

It is no longer acceptable to live in a world where young girls are taken out of school and forced into early marriage, where women’s employment opportunities are limited, and where the threat of gender-based violence is a daily reality — at home, in the street, at school and at work. -Michele Bachelet, Head of UN Women…

Violence against women is a horrific reality in many places…

Nikki van der Gaag…

Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian social justice activist and blogger…

Sixteen days of activism against gender-based violence start here.…

The first anniversary of the popular protests against fuel pricerises in Burma has come around…

Timor-Leste’s landscape is still deeply scarred from the conflict that raged in 1999, after the Timorese population voted for independence from Indonesia.…

*Nikki van der Gaag* reveals how, in many countries around the world, girls are still discriminated against, abused and treated as second-class citizens – just because they are girls.…

*Femke van Zeijl* on the devastation caused by rape.…

In October 2006, Thailand expanded its list of tourist attractions with one of the world’s most laid-back military coups…