Cities are often seen as hotspots of violence, with the assumption that larger cities are inherently more violent than smaller ones. This "universal law" of urban scaling has long shaped scientific ...

South Africa's move to classify gender-based violence and femicide as a national disaster raises expectations for urgent action. South Africa has a femicide rate that is five times higher than the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Participants hold hands as they lie on the ground during a gender-based violence protest at the forecourt of the botanical gardens ...

Violence against women and girls in Africa demands urgent action. As of 2023, it is estimated that one in three women and ...

President Donald Trump’s recent interventions on South Africa have been met with outrage in the liberal media, and its ‘fact-checking’ machinery has been put into overdrive scrutinizing every ...

Pre-Trump government reports of human rights abuses in South Africa help lend credibility to President Donald Trump‘s claims that white South African refugees, farmers in particular, do face ...

BRONKHORSTSPRUIT, South Africa(AP) — At the command of a female instructor, a line of girls and women, some wearing pink ear protectors, shoot five rounds at a target with 9 mm pistols as they undergo ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Hundreds of women wearing black gathered in a Johannesburg park on Friday, one day before the start of the Group of 20 summit, to stage a 15-minute lie-down protest symbolizing the ...

The lethality (measured by the number of casualties per 100,000 people each year) of cities with different highway connections (their degree) indicates that more isolated cities (with fewer ...