Human persecution leads to anxiety and physiological stress among baboons. That's according to the findings of new research by the Durham University Department of Anthropology. The study looked at how ...

New research from the University of Lincoln, UK, is challenging a common assumption about the evolutionary origins of human violence, suggesting that everyday aggression does not inevitably lead to ...

A study of more than 60 countries shows those with faster declines in the social acceptability of intimate partner violence ...

On October 3, 2023, Reem Alsalem, U.N. Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls told the United Nations General Assembly that “women and girls continue to be killed on the basis of their ...

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Twenty-three human rights organizations and individuals, including Amnesty International, raised concerns about sex-based violence on Thursday. The report, titled “Forms of Sex-Based Violence Against ...

In 1982, the Syrian government besieged the city of Hama, killing tens of thousands of its own citizens in sectarian violence. Four decades later, rebels used the memory of the massacre to help ...

(Kinshasa) – Intercommunal violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s western Kwamouth territory from June 2022 to March 2023 has killed at least 300 people in cycles of attacks and reprisals, ...

The following submission was presented to the UK parliament’s All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Sudan and South Sudan in February 2023, based on research by Human Rights Watch conducted since ...