Violence against women Articles

In a post-Brexit Britain, international conventions and the obligations they create become more important than ever before. They provide for us an important external perspective and the necessary scrutiny to shine a light on the unintended or ill-thought-through...

Violence against political women is on the rise and risks alienating women from public life, argues Jess Phillips 'If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the second amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know. But I’ll tell you what,...

Internet haters want to silence women in public life The internet has become a safe space for misogynists. Comments which would lead to tribunals in the workplace or gasps of condemnation in the pub flow freely behind the murky anonymity of the web. Rape threats,...

More than 500 women have now reported that they were victims of rape, sexual assaults and harassment in Cologne and other German cities on new year’s eve. The attacks were reportedly carried out by gangs of men largely of north African and Arab appearance and have...