Taxi companies built by women are improving their safety. And fences made of beehives are keeping farmers safer from ...

Miike Takashi and producer Misako Saka on women in Japanese film industry, 'cheap' horror budgets and not being 'conscious' of audiences.

In Nigeria, a chilling wave of gender-based violence is sweeping through communities, with domestic abuse spiralling into fatal attacks and intimate partners turning into killers. From the brutal ...

When trainee doctor Moumita Debnath’s half-naked, mutilated body was found last August at a medical college in Kolkata, shock ...

A book about farmer suicides and women farmers in rural distress was the highlight at the ongoing World Book Fair in the ...

Female genital mutilation is excruciatingly painful and medically unnecessary. UNICEF is working to end this cruel practice.

Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) is a deeply entrenched cultural practice that affects around 200 million women ...

Forum 18, a site based in Norway, is one of the few media outlets specializing in coverage of religious freedom.

Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) is a deeply entrenched cultural practice that affects around 200 million women and girls. It's practised in at least 25 African countries, as well as parts ...

Indonesian Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) plans to create regulations to handle femicide cases ...

From the young woman brutally murdered and dismembered in a short-term rental apartment to the Olympic runner set on fire by her estranged boyfriend, a surge in violence against women in Kenya has ...