The Government of Sierra Leone has officially launched Spotlight Initiative, the UN high-impact initiative to end all forms of violence against women and girls (VAWG).The launch at the New Brookfields ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs has joined jail self-improvement programs aimed at curbing drug use and violence against women — a blatant ...

Anna has been living in a women's shelter for a year. She is in need of special protection because her husband tried to kill her and threatened their children. This is no isolated case. The most ...

Diddy is reportedly undergoing therapy for drug use and domestic violence while in jail ahead of his October sentencing ...

Violence against Black women and girls is a longstanding national epidemic that has long been overlooked and underreported. Though they make up less than 5% of Los Angeles’ population, ...

If you ask President Joe Biden, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)—passed as part of former President Bill Clinton's 1994 crime bill, with expansions authorized every few years since—was an ...

Multiple UN Special Rapporteurs on violence against women, its causes and consequences, have repeated calls for a binding instrument. The UN has acknowledged the violence for more than 30 years.

Violence against women has nothing to do with women, and everything to do with violent masculinity and the cultures of countries and police forces that tolerate it. Men and women are killed by men.

How the Violence Against Women Act Failed Women The provision of the 1994 Crime Bill sponsored by then-Senator Joe Biden has contributed to mass incarceration and state violence. Abigail Higgins ...

According to crime statistics from Police Headquarters, incidents of violence against women and children have surged significantly ...

Since the Violence Against Women Act was reauthorized and signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2013, gender identity protections have appeared alongside traditional sex-based distinctions.