On May 21, a man shoved a woman against the side of a moving train in the New York City subway in a random and unprovoked attack. 35-year-old Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy was left “instantly paralysed” and is currently fighting for her life.

The Indian UNSC Ambassador proposed four elements to help maximise the 1325 resolution to further women, peace, and security.

Being a survivor of gender-based violence is not easy. The world can throw words like ‘it’s okay’ or ‘you are strong’ at your face. But is that all you want to hear?

In the Kurdistan region of Iraq, young girls and women, even those as young as 16 years old, are burning themselves as a way out because the levels of torture they face in their abusive households are intolerable. 

2022 marked India’s 75th year into Independence, however, violence against women remains the country’s most pervasive human rights transgression

A man, who abducted a 5-year-old girl and raped her, was caught and produced before the village panchayat which instructed him to do 5 sit-ups as a punishment in front of the onlookers for the brutal crime he committed.

United Nations (UN) Chief Antonio Guterres spoke about women against women and said that a woman is killed every 11 minutes by a partner or family member.

During the press conference, Angelina Jolie said that she wants to acknowledge the children who have suffered and were terrified because the legislation took such a long time to act upon the reauthorization.

Governments can adopt a partnerships-based approach for providing social infrastructure and services for prevention of VAW. Public private partnership (PPP) mechanisms can be deployed to mobilise additional resources from the private sector.

Bihar gangrape casts light on the urgent imperative need of women’s safety measures as sexual assault cases show no signs of stopping.