Five years after the Taliban takeover, Afghanistan remains the only country barring girls from secondary school. Its crisis is extreme, but no society has finished the job. UNICEF estimates that one in five girls worldwide is married before 18, and that more than 12 million are married every year, roughly one every three seconds. That…
A woman fleeing violence arrives at a shelter to find the door locked and the lights off. A pregnant woman walks for hours because the nearest clinic has closed. A mother is turned away from a food line. These are not hypothetical scenes from a distant war. According to Beyond the Breaking Point, the UN…
The Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) has officially opened abstract submissions for the SVRI Forum 2026, one of the world’s most significant global platforms addressing violence against women, violence against children, and intersecting forms of gender-based violence. With the submission deadline set for 30 January 2026, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, advocates, and programme implementers are encouraged…
