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On a breezy evening in early January 2021, six teens — five girls and one boy — walked briskly behind Madame Joy as she led the way to a motor park to catch a night bus due to depart from Makurdi —...

Karachi, Pakistan — The day in November 2020 that Shaista Bhatti, a 45-year-old Lady Health Worker (LHW) in Pakistan, fell ill, she had visited her younger sister, Shazia, who insisted on taking her...

Pune, India — After spending two weeks at a government COVID-19 care facility in Kolhapur — in the western Indian state of Maharashtra — Ashwini Patil, 35, had made a full recovery and was discharged...

CONTRIBUTOR, JENNIFER UGWA Abuja, Nigeria — In January 2018, Pauline*, 23, fled her village in Tse-Usenda, Guma Local Government, Benue State after Fulani militant herders attacked her community. She...

On the last Sunday morning in January 2019, a homemade bomb pierced through the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral in Jolo, the capital of Sulu province in the southern Philippines. As parishioners...

Srinagar, Indian-Administered Kashmir --- On May 19, 2020, the city of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, awoke to a gunfight between the counter-insurgency grid of the Indian state...

It has been five months of lockdown for refugee camps on the Greek island of Lesbos, the center of the refugee crisis in Europe. While Greece began reopening in May — even welcoming tourists again —...

Updated at 2:02pm EST with information on the first COVID-19 case confirmed in Syria. Kobane, Syria—Miscarriages have surged among displaced women in northeastern Syria over the last several months,...

For decades, ethnic women in Myanmar have documented acts of sexual violence committed against them in the hopes that, one day, perpetrators will be held accountable for their crimes. They had...

“We are women who have suffered. The culprits need to realize the harm they caused, the errors they committed,” said María*, one of 36 Maya Achi women who are bringing a case against soldiers who had...

When Dr. Denis Mukwege was awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize last October, international attention was renewed to the "flamboyant brutality" of mass sexualized violence in eastern Democratic...

Mexico City—“Every night she asks me, ‘Why are we sleeping out here on the ground and not in the palace?’” Doña Marisela Cástulo Guzmán said, gesturing to her seven-year-old daughter, Frida. Last...

Maiduguri, Nigeria—When Boko Haram militants captured the northeastern Nigerian town of Gwoza in August 2014, 45-year-old Amina Mohammed was still reeling from the loss of her husband. He’d died two...

Today marks four years since ISIS launched their genocidal campaign against the Yezidi community in Sinjar. Since the initial attack in August 2014, thousands of Yezidi women and men have been...

Maiduguri, Nigeria—When a group of women came to Maryam Muhammad and offered to pay for her trip from Maiduguri in Nigeria to Saudi Arabia to take part in the Hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca,...

Over the years, Magistrate Judge Harrison Adika has heard more sexualized violence cases than he can count at courts in Nyeri and Kisumu in central Kenya. But Adika says many defendants facing such...

In Afghanistan, "economic empowerment” is a buzzword of the day, most frequently used by starry-eyed donors and development workers as they implement employment schemes, skill-development programs...

If 19-year-old Rose Alek* could have one wish granted, it would be to complete her education. Following her parents’ death, Alek relocated from her home in South Sudan at the age of 6 with her...

Rahaf feared going home. Her clothes had been torn, making visible the painful red welts that would turn into eggplant-colored bruises. On her arms and legs, her family and fiance would be able to...

By Joyce J. Wangui/Guest blogger — July 18, 2017 Nairobi—In the violence that rocked Kenya following the disputed elections of 2007, the media reported hundreds of cases of sexualized violence...