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

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 ...

It is not just pop culture that is facing a reckoning. Last year a female prosecutor in Osaka, in west of Japan, accused a ...

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 ...

Air pollution is linked to the daily deaths of over 100 children under five in East Asia and the Pacific, according to a ...

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 ...

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