Gender-based violence (GBV) affects women and girls the most, especially during times of crisis or emergency. War, being forced to leave home and poverty make gender-based violence more likely and ...

Crime is down because we invested in what works: community-based solutions driven by those most impacted who can prevent violence before it happens.

The Covid-19 pandemic is a brutal reminder of how interconnected our world is and how reliant we are on each other to keep our communities healthy and safe. Much the same can be said about another ...

Last September, Roshunda Parker snapped a picture of her 4-year-old great niece on her first day of kindergarten. It shows Jai’Nadia Little beaming, wearing a red-and-black first-day outfit, just ...

Editor’s Note: Targeted violence can be prevented before it starts by applying the same four‑step public health approach that CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention used for decades to reduce community ...

When Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were assassinated in their home in June, the media widely reported it as an attack on progressive politicians. And it was, Cynthia ...

SALT LAKE CITY — "The most powerful root cause of violence is violence," David Kennedy, the creator and criminologist behind the Boston Gun Project and the Operation Ceasefire strategy, told Utah ...

I watched in horror as the fight between two girls turned into a life-and-death struggle when one combatant broke a soft drink bottle against a nearby wall and began to violently slash her opponent ...

ANONYMOUS. 70%. THAT’S HOW MUCH A LOCAL ORGANIZATION SAYS GUN VIOLENCE HAS DECREASED IN A NORTH OMAHA TARGET AREA. U-TURN WORKS TO DECREASE AND PREVENT VIOLENCE IN OMAHA. AND NOW, THANKS TO $100,000 ...

This story was originally published by The 19th. When Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were assassinated in their home in June, the media widely reported it as an attack on ...