Brazilian Congressional committee votes to ban all abortions
The single vote against the ban was cast by the only woman present during the session
"I can't go home": death threats terrify India's sex trafficking survivors
"They want me to forget that I was abducted on my way to a relative's house, sold, beaten and abused for six years"
Sacked for being pregnant, Hong Kong maids called 'dogs', left homeless
"(My employer) would say awful things to me, calling me a dog and that I was giving birth to a dog, that my baby would be born mentally disabled, and without arms or legs"
India's rape survivors degraded by "finger test" despite reforms, report says
"In some states, both the police and the medical system have not adopted the measures the government set out"
London mother crowd-funds private rape prosecution
"I can pay someone to do the Crown Prosecution Service's job for them"
Uncles sentenced to life for raping 10-year-old Indian girl who was denied abortion
"This is an appropriate punishment for such a heinous crime and should be a strong deterrent"
The Weinstein effect: the global scourge of sexual harassment and exploitation
Misogyny is deeply ingrained across the world
Mexico women protest violence in skeletal Day of Dead march
"There's a part of society that still doesn't consider this issue as something serious; they minimize it"
Slavery or deportation: limbo land for UK's foreign maids
"At night, I don't sleep so good. I feel traumatised - I don't want to be detained or deported like other people I know"
UK Labour activist says she was raped, advised not to report it
"I was scared. I felt ashamed. I know that the Labour Party, like any family, loves a good gossip, and I didn't want people to know and I also was worried that I wouldn't be believed if I did"