After being lured to Pakistan, Hira Anwar was fatally shot by her father and an uncle over online posts that her parents ...

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

UNODC is the United Nations entity mandated with addressing the challenges of drugs, organized crime, corruption, and terrorism. We help governments implement international treaties, monitor global ...

Femicide, or feminicide in some cases ... with 21,700 women and girls killed, followed by Asia with 18,500 cases. The Americas reported 8,300 cases, while Europe and Oceania had much lower numbers at ...

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 ...

Asia and Europe reported lower rates ... However, the report noted that other forms of femicide outside domestic contexts remain severely underreported due to inconsistent data collection practices.

Central Asia – which includes the countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – must be a strategic focus of American policy. The region offers a wealth of ...

At face value, any public action the Kenyan government takes to show that it’s listening to its citizens is important – but ...

"There was sexual violence, there was torture, there was cruelty, which are very explicit signs of hatred, misogyny, and ...

Southeast Asia consists of eleven countries that reach from eastern India to China, and is generally divided into “mainland” and “island” zones. The mainland (Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and ...

On January 24, Argentina’s Minister of Justice Mariano Cúneo Libarona warned on X that the government of President Javier Milei would seek to eliminate femicide from the penal code on the ...