For the first time in the UN’s history, the global public is having the chance to hear about the individual agendas...

Academics who suggest that the very idea of ‘modern slavery’ is inane and clichéd undermine anti-slavery activism...

The Office of the Children’s Commissioner reveals that in England 1.3 million will suffer sexual abuse in their...

Violence is manifested in so many ways, yet it is always the violence that comes within the domestic space that...

China's one-child policy fundamentally changed the most intimate aspects of Chinese lives. It's removal last month...

"Invest in adolescents. We’re not only the future, we’re the present, and we deserve to be happy." Twelve year old...

Too often women's oppression is sidelined as a lesser cause, and women's experiences dismissed, as two cases in...

Joan Kagezi was a lead prosecutor in high profile cases in Uganda, including against a former LRA commander and...

Palestinian women human rights defenders and peace makers, in resisting the injustices being perpetrated upon their...

With the continued failure of the UN to implement the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders twenty years after it...

Are women the canaries in the coal mine, their ill treatment signalling larger problems within a society? Or is...

We want to end violence against women, but is it really preventable? New research from Uganda adds scientific muscle...

Access to justice is being denied in the UK in the shadow of neoliberalism and religious fundamentalism. Minority...

A new bill, together with moves by some police departments in American cities to end the use of condoms as evidence...

The biggest newspapers in the United States, Britain and Europe still reserve pages of the most serious political...