FBI STATISTICS SHOW that a woman is beaten by a man every twelve seconds in the United States. Its studies estimate that one in two women will be assaulted by a male partner during her lifetime, and every six hours a woman is killed in an act of...

Women's activists have marked November 25 as a day against violence since 1981. On December 17 1999, the United Nations General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (Resolution 54/134)....

(DOMINICAN REPUBLIC) On November 25, women all over the world will mark a 16-day campaign against gender violence. However, many participants may be unaware of the significance of the day chosen to mark the campaign. The International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women,...

Gender-based violence is violence "linked to the unequal distribution of power and the asymmetrical relationships established between men and women in our society that perpetuate the devaluation of the feminine and its subordination to the masculine." (1) This type of violence is...

A Muslim woman is allowed to fight back in self-defense if she is hit by her husband, Lebanon's top Shiite cleric declared Tuesday in a ruling rare for the region's male-dominated Islamic society.Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah issued the fatwa, or religious edict, on the...

The night Marva Wallace shot her husband, he had beaten her, threatened her life, and forced her to perform a sex act while their two-year-old daughter watched. During their year-long marriage, Wallace’s face was always bruised, her eye was...