From Women Around the World and Women and Foreign Policy Program. This Week: Impunity at the ICC
ICC Reverses Rape Conviction Last week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) overturned a war crimes conviction against former...
Rachel Vogelstein | Council On Foreign Relations
Jun 16, 2018
In harsh Saudi crackdown, famous feminists are branded as ‘traitors’
May 19, 2018—ISTANBUL — Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has cast himself as a reformer, advocating equality for women and...
Washington Post
Jun 8, 2018
These Women Survived Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries. They’re Ready to Talk.
June 6, 2018—DUBLIN — They are a haunting sight in the aftermath of wars and natural disasters: the notice boards that spring up outside...
New York Times 1
Jun 7, 2018
REEVES: Glimpses of Continuing Slow-Motion Genocide in Darfur: Recent Reports of Ethnically-Targeted
Military efforts by the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime in Darfur continue to be animated by the ambition...
Sudan - Research, Analysis, and Advocacy 1
Jun 4, 2018
OPINION: South Sudan has failed its children. We must not.
Displaced children at a camp near Kadugli, the capital of Sudan's South Kordofan state, in May. (Ashraf Shazly/Agence France-Presse/Getty...
Washington Post
Jun 3, 2018
'I didn't want this baby': Rohingya rape survivors face a harrowing choice
A Rohingya child is treated at a Doctors Without Borders clinic in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh in April. (Munir Uz Zaman /...
Los Angeles Times
Jun 3, 2018
Keith Morris guilty of Kenya 'holiday' child rape charges
5/22/2018 - A Hull man who befriended and helped vulnerable families in rural Kenya to gain access to their children has been convicted...
National Crime Agency
May 24, 2018
'For me it's like a murder': the surge in sexual attacks on children in Somalia
By Moulid Hujale Children at a camp for people displaced by violence. Campaigners say many victims of rape and sexual assault come from...
The Guardian
May 17, 2018
Noted Humanitarian Charged With Child Rape in Nepal, Stunning a Village
By Kai Schultz and Rajneesh Bhandari A 14-year-old Nepali boy in the doorway of his village home. Police say he was sexually assaulted by...
New York Times 1
May 13, 2018
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
