Gender-based violence and harassment is a widespread issue in supply chains. Women workers in garment manufacturing, food production and hospitality are routinely subjected to unwanted touching and ...

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) in Haiti is a widespread and escalating problem, exacerbated by the country’s deep-rooted gender inequalities, systemic impunity, and political instability. As the ...

Xiaoqing Yu is the World Bank Country Director for the Western Balkans. This opinion piece was originally published in Bosnian by Forbes BiH, in Albanian by Panorama.com.al, and in Montenegrin by ...

Gender-based violence and harassment are high in some Nigerian workplaces due to non-ratification, adoption and domestication of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention 190 on ...

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 ...

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 (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 ...

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 ...

Blue Veins organized a training program to educate women police officers about gender responsive policy in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region, Pakistan. Credit: Qamar Naseem, program coordinator, Blue ...

The Supreme Court of Canada recently released its ruling that mandatory minimum sentences for access or possession of child sexual abuse and exploitation material — previously called child pornography ...