Violence against women

THE GUARDIAN By Liz Ford in Penjikent and Jomi  Women in Tajikistan involved in the Zindagii Shoista project, which is tackling domestic violence. Photograph: Anisa Sabiri for the Guardian. For 22 years, Rano Mahmurodova was violently […]

“Fanta” lost her future, her friends, and, for a while, her family, when she got pregnant at 17. The man who got her pregnant, and whom she had been seeing for nearly two years, rejected her and acknowledged nothing. 

Around the world, discriminatory legislation prevents women from accessing their human rights. It can affect almost every aspect of a woman’s life, including the right to choose a partner, inherit property, hold a job, and obtain child custody.

THE DAILY STAR Since 2015, hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi women have gone to the Middle East, mostly Saudi Arabia, in search of a livelihood. Nearly five thousand of them have so far returned, with many alleging torture and serious abuse.

This study, conducted by F,rance terre d’Asile, has established a typology of the violence women residing in France may face.

Cumberland Lodge Research Associate A report by Nicola Sharp-Jeffs. From a  conference held on 6-7 February 2017. Back in 1947, when the educational foundation at Cumberland Lodge was established to debate the ‘moral and spiritual […]

INTLAWGRRLS — In early July 2013, Human Rights Watch reported that one of the alleged perpetrators of the 2009 Guinea stadium massacre, Lieutenant-Colonel Claude Pivi, has been charged with murder, rape and destruction of property. This […]

Research: An evolutionary analysis of gender-based war crimes and the continued tolerance of “forced marriage”.

INTLAWGRRLS – From 21 to 27 January 2016, the confirmation of charges hearing in the Dominic Ongwen case was held at the International Criminal Court (ICC). It is an important case for many reasons, one of which is this […]

Reuters – NEW DELHI, June 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Beaten up, raped and repeatedly impregnated by her father for more than a decade – a young woman’s fight for justice in the face of threats, oppression […]