Health rights and gender-based violence

Horror and heartbreak continues to spread around the world after news of Olympic runner Agnes Tirop’s murder in her home in Kenya. 

A report released by Plan International Australia reveals that online false information has left one in five girls feeling physically unsafe. 

Report finds women and girls were sexually abused by aid workers during the two years of the Ebola outbreak response. 

Afghanistan’s minister for women Hasina Safi has fled the country in disguise, saying it was “the hardest, hardest day.”

A number of leading health professionals are seeking to revoke the NSW government’s plans to temporary close breast screening services across the state.

Many pregnant people remain ineligible to get the Pfizer vaccine because they are not considered a priority group by the federal government.

Online harassment and abuse from men towards women has increased in the last year or so since the pandemic lockdowns.

Melbourne-based ultra-marathon runner Sam Gash is running across India to raise money for India’s COVID-19 relief.

A South Cameroon woman dropped to her knees before Prime Minister Scott Morrison pleading for the Australian government to help

This week, Oxfam has revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic has cost women around the world $800 billion in lost income.

On Monday, a 65-year-old Asian American woman was attacked on the streets of Manhattan by an unidentified man police say is still at large.

Girls across South East Asia and the Pacific have experienced disrupted education, with many being forced to drop out of school altogether.