On May 2, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ (ACHPR) is scheduled to meet for its first public session ...

A former Fort Bliss soldier was sentenced to over 27 years in a Mexican prison for killing his 19-year-old girlfriend back in 2023 in Ciudad Juarez, officials said.

While official analyses suggest that North Macedonia is making progress in certain areas of gender equality, a deeper ...

In Guinea, the murder of several women by their partners within a single week has highlighted the alarming scale of femicide in the country. This surge in violence has encouraged some survivors to ...

The 13th Parliament has been accused of engaging in rent-seeking behaviour and abdicating its oversight role, all the while ...

The Fiji Women’s Rights Movement (FWRM) is outraged by the recent spate of violence against women resulting in serious injuries along with the brutal murder of two women by their partners in separate ...

Amnesty International’s latest annual report on the world's state of human rights places a harsh spotlight on Greece. The collapse of the country’s public health system, widespread allegations of ...

Urgent measures are needed to curtail the rising "medicalization" of female genital mutilation (FGM) and to engage health workers to prevent the practice, according to a new guideline published today ...

Audre Lorde said, ‘There is no hierarchy in oppression.’ My activism is rooted in this belief. Whether it’s gender-based violence, ethnic discrimination or economic marginalization, our fights are ...

Accused killer Adrian Torrens who allegedly murdered 19-year-old Audrey Griffin was spared jail for sinister offending just ...

Gloria Orwoba noted that there were men who were also using women but were not being killed, as increased femicide cases ...

Femicide typically refers to murders by a partner, spouse or family member in which the victim's gender plays a key role.