#gender-based-violence

#gender-based-violence

The murder of three young Argentinian women whose torture by suspected drug traffickers was livestreamed on a private Instagram group has sent shock waves through a country unused to such extreme levels of narco violence. Brenda del Castillo, 20, Morena Verdi, 20, and Lara Gutierrez, 15, went missing on Friday, after they were lured to a house in the outskirts of Buenos Aires by a promise that they would be paid US $300 for taking part in a sex party.

I was about 13 when my family decided to marry me off to a man of 29. I cried, I resisted. The pain was doubled because even at that age I was already drawn to reading about rights and freedoms. My suffering came from knowing that my rights were being violated, along with my adolescence and childhood. But soon I had to accept the situation

The brutal rape and murder of a young female trainee doctor at one of the largest government-run hospitals in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata in August 2024 caused a nationwide outcry, leading to demonstrations in several cities across India. The protests spread and morphed into a women's social justice movement, "Reclaim the Night," which demanded safer public spaces and workplaces for women.

Italian authorities reported the arrest of an American man in Greece linked to the deaths of a mother and her baby found in central Rome.