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A temporary clinic in Tawila for people fleeing conflict in Darfur. "There is mounting evidence that rape is being deliberately and systematically used as a weapon of war," says UN Women. © UNFPA Rape is used as a weapon in Sudan's war, doctors group says The Washington Post March 31, 2026   By Evelyne Musambi and Samy Magdy | AP The aid group Doctors Without Border says that sexual violence against women and girls is being used as a weapon of war in Sudan’s fierce conflict b

South & Southeast Asia: The Medicalization of Female Genital Mutilation   By Juliana Girotto, Genocide Watch March 2026 Activists carry banners to commemorate International Women’s Day. Toto Santiko Budi/Shutterstock The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently released a call to action surrounding the medicalization of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the Asia-Pacific region. FGM can be defined as “all procedures involving partial or total removal of the female extern

By the Central Asia Task Force Genocide Watch An Afghan mother holds her daughter, staring at the light from behind her obscured window. Photo: UN Women/Sayed Habib Bidell. The conditions facing women in Afghanistan today reflect a systematic, multilayered assault on their rights, dignity, and survival. The Taliban’s return to power has not only reversed 20 years of progress but has intensified gender-based persecution to levels amounting to femicide. From the collapse of leg

Kaab TV journalist Amiro Sulaiman Ibrahim and Iqro Abdullahi Abdirahman from Five Somali TV. | PHOTO/Courtesy. MOGADISHU, Somalia 19 March 2026 The Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) strongly condemns the violent arrest and confiscation of equipment from two women journalists in Mogadishu on Wednesday, 18 March, while they were covering a public protest against forced evictions in Mogadishu's Dayniile district. Kaab TV journalist Amiro Sulaiman Ibrahim and Iqro Abdullahi Abdi

By Cooper Denison Demonstrators mark the first anniversary of deadly antigovernment protests in Nairobi on June 25, 2025 [Donwilson Odhiambo/Reuters] Kenya gained independence in 1963 following decades of oppressive British colonial rule. The 1952 Mau Mau Uprising, an armed anti-colonial rebellion led by members of the dispossessed Kikuyu ethnic group, was met with brutal violence under a lengthy state of emergency that lasted until 1960. Atrocities included imprisonment, t

UN Fact Finding Mission report on El Fasher: Sudan Core Group foreign ministers’ statement The Foreign & Commonwealth Office's main building in Whitehall source: UK Foreign Office العربيَّة Statement from the foreign ministers of the Sudan Core Group on the UN Fact Finding Mission (FFM) report on El Fasher. From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office  and The Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP   Published 26 February 2026 Statement by foreign ministers of the Sudan Core Group at t