Trócaire spoke to the Irish News in Ethiopia about efforts to combat an ongoing epidemic of gender-based violence and sexual assault against women and girls.

Summit where the Convention to End Violence Against Women and Girls was adopted in February 2025, Ethiopia has not ...

Scores of women and girls in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region were sexually assaulted, often by multiple men alleged to be combatants, after a peace agreement last year ended the conflict there, ...

FILE - A Tigrayan refugee rape victim who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray sits for a portrait in eastern Sudan near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, March 20, 2021. A new study of medical records ...

In the weeks since UNICEF Ambassador Alyssa Milano encouraged those who have been sexually abused to write "Me too" in their social media accounts, the phrase has been used over 1.7 million times in ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Virtually the only way for Tesdale Mesele, 13, to avoid soon being married into a life of housework and childbearing was to run. So that's what the spunky girl with matchstick ...

Every Saturday morning, a group of young girls and women converge on the Addis Skate Park in Ethiopia's capital to delve into the world of skateboarding. They practise vigorously, learning everything ...

Africa's biggest social issues and taboos are no match for these girls. A revolutionary new cartoon series called Tibeb Girls features a group of three young superheroes, who unite to make rural ...

JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) - Jerusalem, Frehiwot and Messay were only children when Connie and Dennis Dregne adopted them from Ethiopia. Now, six years later, the teens are poised to make their marks in ...

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been making sweeping changes. One area in which he’s made considerable progress is in women’s representation in government. He appointed Sahle-Work Zewde as ...