Julienne Lusenge, a leading Congolese rights activist, says rape victims are dismayed by the International Criminal Court and call it an asylum for war criminals. Recently, she spoke about the local search for justice.

“I’m a human rights activist now,” Leslee Udwin says. Her film, still banned in India, is being aired on PBS today, Nov. 16. The government has made its own, official film about the notorious and vicious rape, which she shrugs off as reassuring propaganda.

Papua New Guinea is often seen as the powerhouse of the Pacific, but not when it comes to protecting women from violent partners. Despite some steps forward, changes seem to be dragged along by activists, with the government not leading the way.

Beyond the clear threat of physical danger, domestic violence keeps tens of thousands–if not millions–of women and families living in poverty. The problem is well understood. What we need is help from lawmakers and employers.

In this rape-bystander training, audience members become part of the sketch. When they hesitate to speak up in the auditorium, for instance, they help dramatize real-world complicity with sexual harassment or assault.

Over the next few years campaigners will be trying to boost the number of women running and serving in the tribunals and offices that make some of the most consequential decisions in international justice.

We need to pull together to build a culture of health, so that black women in the U.S. don’t continue to die at rates on par with Iraq, Syria and North Korea.

The U.S. already has a federal law called the Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban, better known as the Lautenberg Amendment. So why isn’t that enough? Here are two big reasons.

With different wants and needs from older women in jail and prison, “there are no benefits to putting kids in adult prisons,” says one advocate of the two states in the country that prosecute 16- and 17-year-olds in the justice system as adults.