Sexual and Gender-Based Violence – Global Fund for Women https://www.globalfundforwomen.org Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:17:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Favicon.svg Sexual and Gender-Based Violence – Global Fund for Women https://www.globalfundforwomen.org 32 32 2025 YEAR IN GENDER JUSTICE https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/latest/article/2025-year-in-gender-justice Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:22:48 +0000 https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/?p=65177 In 2025, feminist organizations stood at a crossroads of crisis and resistance across the globe. Regressive policies and devastating funding cuts threatened to unravel decades of progress, leaving vital grassroots organizations on the brink, or worse, shuttered. But from the streets of El Fasher, Sudan, to the Parliament halls in Rabat, Morocco, our partners are not just holding the line…

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]]> Afro-Mexican Women’s Collective Action, Resistance, and Renewal https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/latest/article/afro-mexican-womens-collective-action-resistance-and-renewal Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:52:23 +0000 https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/?p=64184 Published June 11, 2025 "We don’t just want survival; we want dignity. We want a world where our daughters don’t have to fight the same battles we did.” – Mijane Jiménez Salinas, Executive Director of Mano Amiga de La Costa Chica, a Global Fund for Women grantee partner. Mano Amiga mobilizes Afro-Mexican women and girls’ grassroots solutions into collective action—fighting gender-based…

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]]> Ending Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Perú https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/movements/peru/ Thu, 24 Jun 2021 20:32:05 +0000 https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/?post_type=movements&p=49308 Perú Feminist organizers in Perú have been raising their voices against sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) for years, including through mass street demonstrations demanding #NiUnaMenos (Not One More). Their efforts have taken on renewed urgency since the COVID-19 pandemic began; at least 8,459 women and girls have been reported missing in Perú since March 2020. Now more than ever…

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]]> ‘me too.’ Global Movement https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/movements/me-too/ Mon, 07 Jun 2021 16:38:19 +0000 https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/?post_type=movement&p=48459 Global The ability to live free from violence is a basic human right. But sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) persists in every country of the world. 'me too.' International ’s groundbreaking survivor-focused leadership on SGBV sparked the global #MeToo hashtag and movement for change that went viral in 2017. While the movement has achieved meaningful wins…

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]]> Palestine Feminist Anti-Violence Movement https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/movements/anti-gender-based-violence-in-palestine/ Mon, 07 Jun 2021 16:34:05 +0000 https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/?post_type=movement&p=48457 Palestine, Israel Palestinian women, girls, and gender diverse and gender nonconforming people face multiple sources of violence—from the Israeli military occupation to a society dominated by patriarchy. Activists and women human rights defenders are fighting to end the widespread—and, in some cases, legally sanctioned—impunity for violence against women, sexual and gender-based…

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]]> Domestic Workers Rights Movement https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/movements/domestic-workers-rights-movement/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 06:34:10 +0000 https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/?post_type=movements&p=10 India As COVID-19 has thrust them into a crisis of survival, domestic workers in India—many of them women from marginalized communities—are organizing to expand labor protections and increase wages. Domestic workers are particularly vulnerable to exploitation. Obscured in private homes, they are at risk of economic, physical, verbal…

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