Violence & Harassment

Assaults on women’s and LGBTQ+ rights—and attempts to put women “in their place”—constitute a backlash against feminist progress expanding women’s...

In rural Guatemala, a group of survivors of sexual slavery won a remarkable legal victory—and have become respected activists for...

Woman using a Samsung VR headset at South by Southwest in Austin in 2015. (Nan Palmero / Flickr) People often...

Members of feminist group FURIE protest at the Women’s Center, a crisis pregnancy center (CPC) in Chicago, on Nov. 15, 2014. CPCs masquerade...

Women wearing floral crowns and holding signs covered in fake blood demonstrate outside Downing Street in London on April 10,...

Melissa Lucio, who was set to be executed on April 27 for the death of her 2-year old daughter Mariah,...

New evidence and an in-depth investigation of Lucio’s interrogation reveal lack of sufficient proof—but she is still set to be...

An anti-FGM protest on International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation in February 2019. (Outlook India / Creative...

Black women are being denied the resources, and the right to live and raise our families with dignity—and without state...

Amanda Palasciano, founder of Don’t Stay Inc., discusses her experience as a survivor of domestic abuse and her mission to...