Laws zeroing in on abortion providers, known as TRAP laws, increase the rate of intimate partner violence related homicides. Anti-abortion laws increase the likelihood that pregnant victims of domestic violence…

The Council has given the green light to an EU directive to combat violence against women and domestic violence. Taking decisive action against these acts of violence is essential to…

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (AP) — Authorities in southern Brazil rushed Wednesday to rescue survivors of massive flooding that has killed at least 100 people, but some residents refused to leave…

BY ADITHI RAMAKRISHNANUpdated 11:02 AM EDT, May 8, 2024Share DALLAS (AP) — A thick atmosphere has been detected around a planet that’s twice as big as Earth in a nearby solar…

MEULABOH, Indonesia (AP) — The boat glided across waters that were dark and still, under a night sky that was cloudless and calm. But on board, the 12-year-old girl quaked…

Joint Statement by Syrian and International Civil Society Organisations and Victims’ Associations in support of investigating Bashar al-Assad for chemical attacks. We are Syrian and international civil society organisations and…

More than 80% of Jews in Israel believe that in a few years from now, the Nazi genocide of Jews during World War II will become a vague historical event,…

Due to the revolt by Nat Turner, a new law was passed by the Virginia General Assembly making it unlawful for enslaved or free Africans to learn to read and…

The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre says it is "horrified" after the coroner's office dropped off human remains in brown paper bags without warning to its reception. The four evidence bags contained…