Analysis of media organisations and news stories shows underrepresentation across editorial leadership and coverage

81,100 women and girls were killed intentionally in 2021, and the overall number of female murders remained largely unchanged over the past decade

Recent murders have drawn public attention to gender-based violence in India, where officials have failed to track such attacks. As the UN compiles femicide statistics, DW looks at why India is likely to come up short.

Violence against women and girls is rising around the world. Rates of gender-based violence increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the crisis is only being compounded by the pressures of an ongoing global hunger catastrophe fueled by climate change, resource scarcity, and increased commodity costs.

On average, more than five women or girls were killed every hour in 2021 by someone in their own family, two UN agencies said in a report published on Wednesday.

The livelihood crisis created by scorching summers, failed monsoons and frequent droughts in the arid Rayalaseema region of southwestern Andhra Pradesh has left women from poor and marginalised communities highly vulnerable to sex trafficking, shows a BehanBox investigation.

Sexual and gender-based violence in the domestic and social spheres is but a reflection of extremism in the public sphere, say Swarna Rajagopalan and Natasha Singh Raghuvanshi, in their paper on the subject in Extremism and Gender-based Violence in South Asia.

Frontline workers at refuges for domestic abuse victims forced to use own money to help women - including those who have gone without food for days

Too few women are participating in COP27 climate negotiations, charities, activists and politicians have warned.

The research was commissioned by Nurofen, which has launched its “ Gender Pain Gap Index Report ” from the findings.