Sexual violence

Women & Gender
From Turkey to France: Iranian women’s rights activist continues her work despite ongoing threats from Iranian regime
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Reproductive rights
A discussion about Denmark’s forced IUD program for Greenlandic Inuit women and girls
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Conflict & Justice
ICC convicts Sudanese militia leader of war crimes in Darfur genocide
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Sexual violence
Protesters in India call for safer working conditions after rape and murder of female doctor
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Nathalie Vilgrain, sixth from left, is the head of Marijàn, a feminist organization in Port-Au-Prince that is sheltering about 150 women who have been displaced by sexual violence.
Sexual violence
In Haiti, sexual violence is devastating women and girls
The site of a music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023.
Israel-Hamas war
Rape is ‘the most neglected war crime,’ sexual violence expert says
portrait photo of a woman
Planet Hip Hop
‘She is the evolution of reggaeton’: The rise of trans Puerto Rican artist Villano Antillano
close-up shot of Honduran President Castro wearing a mask
Leaders
Honduras’ first female leader faces tough times
two women
#MeToo
‘It’s time that we face the issue’: #MeToo movement gains momentum in Taiwan
Photo of Taiwan's Vice President Lai Ching-te
#MeToo
Taiwan’s political parties beset by sexual harassment allegations
Belongings of Halima Ali Maiyanga and Maryam Ali Maiyanga, two of the young women kidnapped by Boko Haram in a boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria, in April 2014.
Conflict & Justice
‘The Stolen Daughters of Chibok’: the impact of the abduction of Nigerian schoolgirls 9 years on
Bogota has trained more than 500 police officers to respond to cases of gender-based violence, known as the purple patrol.
Sexual violence
In Colombia’s capital, the ‘purple patrol’ fights sexual harassment on crowded buses
Posters with a message that read in Spanish "Free abortion."
Critical State
Founding fatherhood: Part II
Indian people hold placards and candles as they participate at a candle light vigil as they mark the first anniversary of a young woman's demise after the fatal gang rape, in New Delhi, India, Dec. 29, 2013.
Sexual violence
A decade after the deadly assault of Jyoti Singh, has safety for women in India improved?
"Bust of a smiling woman," 1901, by Pablo Picasso, at the Reina Sofía Museum. 
Arts, Culture & Media
The Picasso paradox: Museums grapple with how to remember the artist’s complicated legacy
A dramatic rise in the number of women drugged against their will in France has young people watching their drinks carefully.
Sexual violence
Needle-spiking trend in Europe alarms nightclubbers — especially women
V Sailakshmi, 39, says sex work helped pay for her sister's wedding and for her father's funeral
Women & Gender
‘We are demanding full decriminalization’: Sex workers in India rally for labor rights
Eneas Espinoza, who says he was sexually abused multiple times when he was a child, by several catholic priests in Chile
Sexual violence
A growing number of clerical sexual abuse survivors are coming forward in Latin America
Superhero Priya fights injustice along with her trusted tiger Sahas.
Environment
Superhero Priya tries to rescue New Delhi from air pollution on Earth Day
At a playground in San Francisco, Deisy Ramírez reflects on how she found safety here after fleeing captivity in Guatemala
Women & Gender
For immigrants fleeing gender-based violence, it’s a long road to asylum in the US
Protesters gather outside Poland's Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw, Poland, on Nov.6, 2021, to protest against the restrictive abortion laws after a woman died of complications during her pregnancy. 
Abortion
This Polish activist sent abortion pills to a woman in need. Now she’s on trial.
Women participating in a program for survivors of sexual violence at Woldiya University in Woldiya, Ethiopia, Feb. 19, 2022.
Conflict
The fighting in northern Ethiopia cooled down months ago. But many survivors of sexual violence are only now receiving care.
A woman sits with her legs folded on the ground in a pose of shame and exhaustion.
Sexual violence
For sexual assault victims in Ghana, justice is expensive — and elusive
An image of male and female legs dancing in the final round of the stage category during the Tango World Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021. 
Music
Feminist tango collectives take center stage in Argentina
China's Peng Shuai reacts during her first round singles match against Japan's Nao Hibino at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia
#MeToo
Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai’s retraction ‘comes off as highly staged,’ journalist says
People holding up In Memoriam signs during a rally
Montréal Massacre anniversary: The media must play a key role in fighting femicide
A woman surrounded by other people writes on a white placard
Sexual violence
Protesters in India call for justice for Dalit women who are victims of sexual violence
Protesters chant slogans against the government's decision to withdraw from Istanbul Convention
LGBTQ
Hundreds protest Turkey’s withdrawal from treaty to prevent violence against women
Video still from a Tik Tok video
Sexual violence
This teen’s TikTok video takes on Malaysia’s toxic culture of misogyny
Flowers, children's shoes and other items rest at a memorial
Human rights
Gruesome boarding school discovery forces Canada to reckon with its cultural genocide history
A woman stands in an abandoned building with light coming through the window.
Critical State
Sexual violence in conflict: Part II
In this Aug. 30, 2019 photo, Layla Taloo visits the Ninewa Palace Hotel, where she was once brought by her Islamic State militant captor in Mosul, Iraq.
Critical State
Sexual violence in conflict: Part I
Figures of a 7-year-old migrant girl walking with a woman and unidentified man silhouetted at night
Borders
Many asylum-seekers are returned at the US-Mexico border under Title 42. Advocates call it a ‘sham.’
The rainbow flag, a symbol of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, flies over the British Government Cabinet Offices building, in central London, Friday, March 28, 2014.
Gender
More transgender people are hiding their identity at work in the UK. Why?
Women look out of a crowded bus traveling from the outskirts of Beijing.
Violence
Putting China’s domestic violence law into practice is an uphill battle
A man wearing jeans and sweater throws a rock near a fire burning outside
Critical State
When it rains, it wars: Tracking intersecting security threats, Part I
Greek Olympic sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou poses for a photograph during an interview for The Associated Press, at Agios Kosmas marina in southern Athens, Feb. 4, 2021. Bekatorou is the most successful female athlete in Greek sporting history who rece
#MeToo
Greece ‘finally’ has its #MeToo moment 
Zimbabwean American singer, poet and activist Shungudzo says she finds an outlet for her activism through music.
Music
Artist Shungudzo feels an urgency to ‘use her words’ to fight against racism
View of the mass grave at the Bon Secours mother-and-baby Home, Tuam County Galway Republic of Ireland.
Sacred Nation
The Irish govt and Catholic Church apologized for abusive mother-and-baby homes. Survivors say it’s not enough.  
People walk along a downtown street in Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday, March 16, 2020. Millions of women and girls globally have lost access to contraceptives, abortion services and related care because of the coronavirus pandemic.
How women and girls are especially at risk of hunger during the pandemic 
People take part in a protest against the ruling by Poland's Constitutional Tribunal that imposed a near-total ban on abortion in Warsaw, Poland, Oct. 28, 2020. The banner reads: "The Law And Justice Council introduced the church law at midnight today." 
Reproductive rights
‘Screaming at the priests’: Polish activists protest anti-abortion ruling
Sevilay, a mother of two in Istanbul, got permission from her husband to have an abortion as required by law. But she had trouble finding a public hospital that would do it, and even some of her friends criticize her for her decision.
Reproductive rights
Abortion increasingly hard to access in Turkey
In this file photo, a mural depicting messages against sexual harassment and reading "safe cities" in Arabic script is seen on a highway in Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 3, 2018.
Gender
Social media censorship in Egypt targets women on TikTok
A snowboarder heads back to the lodge at Squaw Valley in Olympic Valley, California, Dec. 5, 2015. Last month, the resort announced plans to change its name in the coming year.
A racial slur remains in hundreds of place names throughout North America
A close-up portrait of a young, light-skinned Black woman with curly hair wearing gold-hooped earrings
Women & Gender
‘EastEnders’ soap highlights increased domestic violence during lockdown
Two Iranian women take a selfie outside a shopping mall in northern Tehran, Iran, on July 2, 2019.
#MeToo
Iranians share stories of sexual harassment, abuse on social media
A crowd carries two caskets.
Women & Gender
Latin American women are disappearing and dying under lockdown
Women hold protest signs and also wear face masks and plastic shields as they protest.
Women & Gender
In Turkey, a conservative push to remove domestic violence protections is met with an uproar
A young child is shown sitting on a bed with health care workers nearby dressed in full protective suits.
Top of The World
India sees record spike in coronavirus cases; Outrage in Turkey over femicide; Fugitive Chinese researcher hiding in consulate
Mayor Park Won-soon speaks during an event at Seoul City Hall in Seoul, South Korea, July 8, 2020.
Seoul mayor’s progressive legacy called into question after his death
An ethnic Uighur woman hugs her son as she stands outside her house with her daughter and neighbors
Reproductive rights
Sterilization abuse of Uighurs in China meets international legal criteria for genocide, experts say
Indigenous leader Paulinho Paiakan takes part in an Occupy Funai protest that will shut down Funai offices throughout Brazil in Brasilia, July 13, 2016.
COVID-19
Paulinho Paiakan is remembered as a hero to Indigenous Brazilians
A hand holds a transgender flag
LGBTQ
This trans woman sparked Kuwait’s biggest LGBTQ movement in history
Sudanese protesters march during a demonstration to commemorate 40 days since the sit-in massacre in Khartoum North, Sudan, on July 13, 2019.
Justice
Sudanese women seek justice 1 year after pro-democracy crackdown
Internally displaced girls in Somalia queue before at a school beside an IDP camp in Dollow, Somalia, April 4, 2017.
COVID-19
Despite recent historic gains in ending FGM, Somalia sees dramatic increase
A person in a hoodie turned away from the camera speaks on a cell phone
COVID-19
LGBTQ helplines see surge as queer communities face lockdown in hostile homes
A woman is shown through glass with her arm inside a lab testing area and holding a medical dropper.
Top of The World
Where is the world in the race to combat coronavirus? ‘Only renewables’ holding up in global energy slump; As the coronavirus drags on, Mexico’s food prices soar
A young man stands in front of media surrounded by other men
Sexual violence
South Korea reels from latest high-tech, online sex trafficking case
Rohingya refugees walk along the road in the evening at Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Nov. 16, 2018. 
COVID-19
Rohingya women are traditionally kept out of leadership roles. Will the coronavirus change that? 
A group of people in PPE
Top of The World
Coronavirus cases pass 1 million; poor communities left vulnerable; love in the time of corona