May 10, 2024 | The Fight for Women's Inheritance Rights in Lebanon While women’s inheritance and property ownership are protected by the Lebanese Constitution, inheritance laws differ based on religion and sect, leaving disputes to religious courts and personal interpretations — and biases — of those laws ..read more

April 10, 2024 | Will Mexico’s First Presidenta Turn the Tide Against Gender Violence? The nation is expected to make herstory in June when one of two leading women candidates will be elected ..read more

May 01, 2024 | How Do We Address Sexual Violence in Conflict? Answering That Question Depends on How Well We Understand It. Like all crimes, sexual violence must be understood within the broader context in which it occurs ..read more

April 10, 2024 | Lebanon’s Economic Crisis Pushes the Most Vulnerable Into the Sex Trade Since the collapse of the Lebanese Pound in 2019, social workers in Beirut say that migrants and Lebanese alike have turned to the sex trade to cope with the increased costs of living ..read more

March 12, 2024 | Fighting Back Against Sexual Assault and Harassment in Schools In the face of poor enforcement of Title IX protections, students are advocating for themselves when it comes to addressing sexual harm at school, off campus, and online ..read more

March 14, 2024 | How the Media Failed Victims of Sexual Violence in the Israel-Hamas Conflict There is plenty of warranted criticism of the New York Times investigation into sexual violence on October 7, but for all the exposé’s ethical shortcomings, its greatest failure was its lack of consideration for the safety, trauma, and dignified treatment of the victims ..read more

March 15, 2024 | Women and Children Bear the Brunt of Gaza’s Medical Collapse Around 70 percent of those killed in Gaza the last few months have been women and children, with two mothers killed every hour, and one child estimated to be killed every 10 minutes, according to UN sources ..read more

March 20, 2024 | Peru’s Victims of Forced Sterilization Are Still Fighting for Justice Between 1996 and 2000, former President Alberto Fujimori oversaw a family planning program under which more than 280,000 women and men were sterilized in Peru — mainly in poor, rural areas. Decades later, victims are still awaiting justice ..read more

The Hidden Wounds of Sexual Violence in Sudan's War War has been raging for 11 months in Sudan. Amid the horrific wave of violence that has led many people to flee West Darfur, women and girls have described being raped, beaten, detained, and forced to witness the killings of loved ones by groups of armed men ..read more

February 28, 2024 | Getting ‘Hagued’: How One International Law Enables Intimate Partner Violence In the last decade, an estimated 15,000 women across the globe have been accused of abducting their own children. They are all foreigners who tried to relocate with their children — oftentimes back to their home countries — but the other parent disagreed. Not all countries criminalize abduction, but the repercussions for the child’s custody are far-reaching ..read more