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Political tension and violence, a weakened economy and mass displacement continues to destabilize Iraq following the war in 2003, and the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the years following. During the enforced control of ISIS in these countries, women were abducted and...

In the aftermath of the genocide against the Tutsi in 1994, the lives of over one million people lost their lives over a period of 100 days. An estimated 100,000-250,000 women were raped during the three months of genocide in Rwanda.

Afghanistan is currently one of the most difficult countries in the world in which to identify as a woman. Political and economic insecurity, educational inequality, sexual violence, and poor health are pervasive among Afghan women and children. Nevertheless, when equipped with powerful vocational...

Beginning in 1992, armed forces terrorized minority ethnic communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina for ethnic cleansing, mass violence and rape. The breakup of states from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, ethnic and political tensions, and economic crisis incited violence, and...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has an extensive history of violence, brutal oppression by the colonial regime, and widespread violence amid the country’s struggle for independence. Ongoing small-scale conflicts across DRC followed between the 1960s-1980s. In the eastern region of DRC...

Ongoing political and ethnic tension, as well as controversy over the independence of Kosovo from Serbia, spurred the war in 1998. Violence ensued as the use of military force against civilians in favor of Kosovo’s independence led to violent clashes between the Kosovo Liberation Army and the...

For generations, South Sudanese women have been raised in conflict and targeted by armed groups for rape and physical violence. Where most perpetrators go unpunished for their crimes, survivors of physical and sexual violence are highly not to receive justice for their horrific ordeals.

For Nigerian women and girls, patriarchal norms, rampant violence, and poverty are obstacles they encounter in their daily lives.