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• Every third woman sexually abused as a child, says report. IRIN News, 9 April 2008. One in three Swazi women has suffered some form of sexual abuse as a child; one in four experienced physical violence, a new United Nations survey revealed this week.
  
• Foetuses in a stream highlight plight of women. IRIN News, 26 September 2007. The discovery of about eighty foetuses in a stream used by a peri-urban community in Swaziland has raised disturbing questions about the desperation of women in a country where unwanted pregnancies are common, abortion is illegal and two-thirds of the population live in poverty.
• Two-thirds of women beaten and abused. IRIN News, 17 September 2007. One in every three female Swazis has experienced some form of sexual violence before turning 18, and two out of three aged 18 to 24, according to the first national survey to chart the scope of sexual and other types of violence perpetrated against women and girls.
• Empowering women to beat abuse. IRIN News, 3 July 2007. Most Swazi women who face domestic violence do not take their children and walk out of the house. "They say, 'who is going to feed me?'" Nonhlanhla Dlamini, Director of the Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse (SWAGAA), told IRIN. But this is changing
• Are there any good men?. IRIN News, 15 June 2007. 'Are there any good Swazi men?' is the catchphrase of a competition to draw men into discussing gender-based violence in the kingdom's patriarchal society.

• Violence Against Children In Swaziland. Findings from a National Survey on Violence Against Children in Swaziland, May 15 - June 16, 2007, Avid Reza, Matthew Breiding, Curtis Blanton, James A. Mercy, Linda L. Dahlberg, Mark Anderson & Sapna Bamrah. Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Swaziland United Nations Children's Fund, October 2007
• Epidemic of Inequality: Women's Rights and HIV/AIDS in Botswana & Swaziland: An Evidence-based Report on Gender Inequity, Stigma and Discrimination, Physicians for Human Rights 2007