South Africa's move to classify gender-based violence and femicide as a national disaster raises expectations for urgent ...

Fifteen women are killed every day in a country with one of the highest rates of gender violence in the world.

At a time when there is a rapid digital uptake in Africa, women in particular are singled out for hate crimes perpetrated ...

South Africa officially declares rampant violence against women national disaster amid protests highlighting high rates of ...

What distinguishes femicide from general homicide is not that the victims are exclusively female; rather, it is that the ...

Hundreds of women wearing black have gathered in a Johannesburg park to protest gender-based violence in South Africa ...

Demonstrators called for their government to declare gender-based violence and killings a national disaster in South Africa.