In a report released ahead of the International Day of the Girl Child (observed on Oct 11), Unicef highlighted that ...

The President of the Republic of Liberia, His Excellency Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr., has by proclamation declared Friday, ...

More than 370 million girls and women alive today – or 1 in 8 – experienced rape or sexual assault before the age of 18, ...

One in eight women have experienced rape or sexual assault before the age of 18, new estimates by United Nations Children's ...

A report by Human Rights Watch has found that gang members lure children with food into exploiting them. At home, they had to ...

The report highlights that when "non-contact" forms of abuse - such as online harassment or verbal assault - are factored in, ...

Lagos State Government has pledged to address the challenges faced by persons with disabilities concerning sexual and gender-based violence.

Violence against children remains a pervasive global issue, with up to a billion children vulnerable to various forms of ...

Nigeria’s governments should do all they can to secure the future of female children from the adverse factors that threaten ...

A new global study conducted over the course of seven years estimates that more than 1 billion people have been subjected to ...

A United Nations report details the violence that women and girls in sport face around the world – including Australia.

Rights activists and local responders said scores of civilians had been killed at sites across Sudan in the past week as the army escalates air strikes nearly 18 months into its war with the ...