During the international 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign, we are helping spread the message of survivors of sexual violence in conflict zones worldwide. They are...

Violence against women and girls is an abhorrent violation of human rights. This systemic violence continues to permeate borders, walls and bodies at an unprecedented rate in countless regions of our...

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has launched its Guidelines on combating sexual violence and its consequences in Africa in November. The Mukwege Foundation has...

After several days of uncertainty, the trial for the Kavumu rapes is scheduled to finally open today in Bukavu. Nearly five years after the first attacks and following an international mobilization...

Five years ago, armed men started to attack the village of Kavumu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). They came during the nights, abducted more than 40 children and raped them. The...

Together with 390 other organizations we signed an open letter calling for more action to to put the goals of the Women, Peace and Security agenda into practice. Real efforts to materialize gender...

In prisons across Syria, sexual violence is used as a method of torture against women, a Syrian human rights organization reports. The detention of women, the conditions and the violence to which...

A report by Amnesty International published this week found sexual violence in the civil war in South Sudan to be used systematically by all parties. Together with members of the global survivor...

Survivors from 12 different countries from all continents join forces to build a global network and draw attention to the use of rape as a weapon of war. With the support of the Dr. Denis Mukwege...