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 ...

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 ...

Dianne Lalonde is affiliated with the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Sue O'Neill received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Sue O'Neill is on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lucé Pretorius does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Despite changes in both national and EU laws, and years of public awareness campaigns, violence against women is still a serious problem across Europe. In some countries, it is even getting worse. A ...