namibia.
In urban Namibia, performance poetry provides a safe space for women to share their experiences and challenge traditional ideas.
Johannesburg Metropolitan Police raid a building highjacked by a criminal syndicate.
EFE-EPA/Kim Ludbrook
President Ramaphosa’s emphasis on fighting crime is well placed. Most categories of violent crimes have risen dramatically over the past eight years.
Residents and small business in a poor community in Cape Town.
EPA/Nic Bothma
Research shows that abuse, violence and poor relationships in families may have dire consequences for society, and specifically children.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses demonstrators protesting against
gender-based violence outside Parliament.
Nic Bothma/EPA-EFE
Research has a distinctive role to play because it gives pointers on what is needed to create long-term change.
People listen to a speaker as they gather in Nathan Phillips Square, before embarking on a Women’s March in Toronto on Jan. 20, 2018.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
New national data, on campuses and elsewhere, can help shift our shared narratives about the root causes of gender-based violence.
With 1,812 women killed this year already, Mexico is Latin America’s second-deadliest place for women after Brazil.
Reuters/Mariana Greif
Women in Mexico are lashing out against rampant sexual violence, police abuse and policies that hurt working mothers.
In February, thousands of women marched in Mexico City to demand that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador do more to keep women safe. The protest sign featured here reads, ‘Don’t be indifferent.’
Reuters/Edgard Garrido/Reuters
Mexico is the second most dangerous country for women in Latin America. Yet the new government is slashing funding for programs meant to protect and empower women.
South African police on patrol in Hout Bay, Cape Town, following requests for more intervention by locals.
EPA-EFE/Nic Bothma
Increasing police patrols won’t solve South Africa’s high rates of violent crime. Underlying problems need to be addressed.
South African women march against high levels of gender based violence in the country.
EPA/Nic Bothma
Gender based violence should not be addressed only once it has happened, by jailing offenders. Prevention is just as important.
Women gather outside of the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2013 to dance as a part of the One Billion Rising movement, a global campaign by women for women which calls for the an end to violence against women.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
We tend to pay attention to mass killings and terrorism. But one girl or woman is killed every other day in Canada. If we identify that as terrorism, we might pay more attention and do something.
South Africa’s police commissioner, Khehla Sitole, and police minister, Bheki Cele, unveil a new plan to combat violent crimes.
Bongani Shilubane/African News Agency
More than 90% of violent crimes in South Africa fall outside the categories named in the police’s new anti-crime strategy.
On International Women’s Day in 2016, a demonstrator carries a cross that reads in Spanish: “For you, for all” to protest violence against women. International Women’s Day is much more widely celebrated in Latin America than it is in Canada and the United States, but injustices for women is a global phenomenon.
(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Women everywhere have low status relative to men. This is a global phenomenon and there are no exceptions, and there is much work to be done in Canada and everywhere. The time is now.
Congolese women in the eastern town of Bunia. Even in conflict zones women are more likely to face violence in their homes than outside.
EPA/Murizio Gambarini
Shocking new findings show that even in conflict-affected countries where soldiers and rebel fighters are a daily danger to women, their husbands and boyfriends are the bigger threat.
A South African student invites people to “walk in others’ shoes” doing a protest about gender based violence.
EPA/Kim Ludbrook
High profile stories of femicide come with a flare up of societal outrage, protest and collective introspection. But nothing ever really changes.
Men march against.
violence against women and children in Cape Town, South Africa.
Reuters/Mike Hutchings
While men regard the social norm of ‘proving’ their manhood as normal, research shows otherwise. Combating these misconceptions can help reduce male violence.
A poignant protest of an avoidable tragedy.
Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters
Who is responsible when 43 girls burn to death in a state-run children’s home?
Organisers get ready for a rally in Lima on August 13.
‘Ni Una Menos, Villa El Salvador, Lima
Peru is the latest country in Latin America where women are mobilising against violence.
A woman and a child walk amidst an art installation of 745 pairs of women’s red shoes, put on display by Mexican visual artist Elina Chauvet to protest against gender violence and femicide, at La Constitucion Square in Malaga, southern Spain, June 12 2015.
Jon Nazca/Reuters
More and more countries are passing femicide legislation. But work remains to make sure that the intent and purpose of these laws is communicated and enforced.
South Africa has one of the highest rates of femicide in the world.
Reuters/Mike Hutchings
South Africa’s violence against women ranks as one of the worst in the world. As much as 40-50% of women in the country have suffered intimate partner violence.