Kenya despite a heightened awareness of the crisis and government measures to curb what the World Health Organization terms ...

Carolina Aló was 17 years old the night her father, Edgardo, saw her for the last time. In their final conversation, he ...

In a major setback in the fight against gender-based violence, Argentinian President Javier Milei's government has announced ...

In Nigeria, a chilling wave of gender-based violence is sweeping through communities, with domestic abuse spiralling into ...

This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers ...

Argentina’s president reverses a law that established femicide as a crime. Also, a new report shows that the majority of ...

Argentinian President Javier Milei last week told the World Economic Forum in Davos that 'radical feminism is a distortion of ...

It comes after the president spoke out against the concept of femicide and what he called “radical feminism” at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “We have even got to the point of ...

"Eliminating femicide as a legal category would put women and girls at greater risk," Mariela Belski, Amnesty Argentina’s executive director, wrote on X on Wednesday. Speaking at the World ...

Femicide is “a crime of murder perpetrated by a man against a woman in the context of gender violence”. That’s the current legal definition in Argentina, where it’s been part of the country’s penal ...