violence

The experts urged governments to ensure that adequately staffed and equipped child protection services and law enforcement are available and accessible to...

It is clear from studies that children who experience violence are at higher risk for mental illness, drug use, alcohol use and obesity, but also for chronic...

In 2018, the University of Alabama published a study showing that when Muslims commit acts of violence, the US media report on it 357% more than violence...

Every girl and every woman has the right to a safer, fairer, more just world. Violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread violations of...

"We need to uphold the equal rights, voices and influence of girls in our families, communities and nations. Girls can be powerful agents of change, and...

Extreme physical violence, the openness in which it is conducted … reflects a widespread culture of tolerance towards humiliation and the deliberate...

Many observers notice a correlation between President Trump’s defamation of immigrants and minorities and the spike of intolerance and prejudice towards the...

The Christchurch attacks drew international attentions to the importance of tackling violent extremism and underlined the exigency of challenging religious...

Nearly 40,000 people in the United States died by guns in 2017, marking the highest number of gun deaths in decades, according to a new analysis of data from...

"Whether it takes the shape of daily forms of racism and discrimination or more violent forms, Islamophobia is a violation of human rights and a threat to...

Gallup found that nearly seven in 10 Americans (69%) say sexual harassment in workplaces is a "major problem", up from 50% in 1998.

According to breakdown and analysis of murders of men between 2012 and 2018, researchers have found that 8 percent of these killings were committed by the...

Seizing a civilian vessel in international waters on a humanitarian mission is a clear violation of international law.

Islamophobia, for example, in the United States cannot be separated, of course, from its political agenda in the Arab and Muslim world but it also comes from...

On 27 January 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump issued the executive order 13769, blocking the entry of the nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries into...

The UN has said that it is "very likely" that the military committed grave human rights abuses in Rakhine that may amount to war crimes.

A mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on 14th February this year claimed seventeen lives, making the tragedy one of...

Humanitarian crisis in Gaza has entered its 11th year as the crippling siege by Israel is making the living conditions of Palestinians more complicated with...

If we want to end violence against women then we must finally end our longest and greatest war: the adult war on children.

The first meeting of the juridical and Legal Advisory Council of the Vice-President for Women and Family affair was chaired by Masoumeh Ebtekar and attended...