Three years in jail for Somaliland woman over ‘contemptuous’ poem
April 15, 2018 A young female poet from Somaliland has been jailed for three years over a poem that advocates the reunification of the...
Nduta Waweru | face2faceafrica.com
Apr 19, 2018
INVESTIGATION: Survivors of herdsmen attacks tormented by deaths, rape at Benue IDP camps
Fear of the known – killer herdsmen – dissuaded taxi drivers in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, from taking the ICIR reporter to Guma...
Chikezie Omeje | International Centre for
Apr 18, 2018
Statue of ‘father of gynecology,’ who experimented on enslaved women, removed from Central Park
The first patient to endure James Marion Sims’s experimental surgery in 1845 was named Lucy. Lucy, an enslaved black woman in Alabama,...
Washington Post
Apr 18, 2018
Myanmar Armed Forces Blacklisted By UN For Committing Sexual Violence Against Rohingya
By Joanne Lu For the first time ever, the UN secretary-general is including Myanmar Armed Forces on an annual blacklist of groups that...
United Nations
Apr 17, 2018
Thousands flee fighting in eastern DR Congo to Uganda
At first the silence is strange, then unnerving. An African village missing its people. Perhaps 2,000 men, woman and children, vanished....
John Ray | ITV News
Apr 12, 2018
History of Wartime 'Rape Camp' in Bosnia Wiped from Town's Collective Memory
VISEGRAD, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- About a 5-minute drive from the center of this town in Bosnia and Herzegovina's northeast is the hotel...
Koji Miki | The Mainichi
Apr 11, 2018
Women in Serb-Controlled Region of Bosnia Still Await Compensation for Wartime Abuse
TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- The third collection letter demanding that 64-year-old Semka Agic pay 3,000 convertible marks (roughly...
Koji Miki | The Mainichi
Apr 10, 2018
For Women Raped During Bosnian War, Still no End to Pain 25 years Later
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- While nearly 20 years has passed since the end of the Bosnian War following the breakup of Yugoslavia,...
Koji Miki | The Mainichi
Apr 9, 2018
Stolen Lives: More Girls Kidnapped as Violence Escalates in Nigeria
Terrorists continue to attack northern Nigeria, and Christians are in the crosshairs. During the evening hours of February 19, Boko Haram...
21st Century Wilberforce Initiative 11
Mar 13, 2018
International Women's Day 2018
Today, in honor of International Women's Day, we would like to commemorate women from all around the world for their strength and...
Darfur Women Action Group
Mar 8, 2018
A Hidden Face of War
By Isabelle Arradon A few years ago, a woman in her sixties outside Banda Aceh in Indonesia told me about the rape and other torture she...
International Crisis Group 1
Mar 7, 2018
RSF shines light on “forbidden coverage” of women’s rights
To mark International Women’s Day (March 8), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is publishing a report entitled “Women’s rights: Forbidden...
Reporters without Borders 1
Mar 5, 2018
