Violence against women in South Sudan is occurring at twice the global average rate
The country’s civil war has killed more than 50,000 people, forced more than two million to flee abroad and plunged parts of the country...
The Independent
Nov 29, 2017
U.N. seeks report from Myanmar on rapes, deaths of Rohingya women
A United Nations women's rights panel called on Myanmar on Tuesday to report within six months on rapes and sexual violence against...
Reuters
Nov 28, 2017
EU, Khartoum process, blind-eye to human rights in Sudan
The European Union has pledged hundreds of millions of euros for the ’Khartoum Process’, a multinational effort to manage migration from...
Sudan Tribune
Nov 25, 2017
‘He stuck a knife into my side’: Burmese army accused of gang-raping women and girls
By Emma Richards An exhausted Rohingya refugee woman pours water on her head from a paddy field as she waits to be taken to a refugee...
Asian Correspondent
Nov 17, 2017
Unspeakable acts of cruelty
When it comes to describing the acts of cruelty perpetrated by Myanmar’s security forces against the Rohingya people, words fail. Indeed,...
Dhaka Tribune 1
Nov 17, 2017
Rape is an act and a weapon of Genocide
FILE: A baby in a basket is one of 1.2 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Picture: @UNICEF/Twitter. A senior United Nations...
Reuters
Nov 12, 2017
Five Questions About Sexual Violence in the Rohingya Crisis
The Five Questions Series is a forum for scholars, government officials, civil society leaders, and foreign policy practitioners to...
Jamille Bigio |Council on Foreign Relations
Nov 9, 2017
Expose Abuses of Women in Detention in North Korea
A North Korean soldier stands guard at the entrance of a women’s prison near Chongsong, North Korea, May 31, 2009. © 2009 Reuters...
Human Rights Watch
Nov 6, 2017
Boko Haram strapped suicide bombs to them. Somehow these teenage girls survived.
By Dionne Searcey "They said to me, ‘Are you going to sleep with us, or do you want to go on a mission?’”AISHA, 15 “I didn’t want a...
New York Times 1
Oct 25, 2017
Sexual violence devastating, humanitarian needs mounting in Rohingya crisis
Horrific accounts of rape and other forms of sexual violence have been widely reported. © UNFPA Bangladesh/Naymuzzaman Prince “My sister...
Genocide Watch
Oct 20, 2017
Photographer found dead one day after being abducted
The young Mexican photographer Edgar Daniel Esqueda Castro was abducted yesterday, on October 5th, in his home in the city of San Luis...
Reporters without Borders 1
Oct 6, 2017
“They Said We Are Their Slaves”
Josephine, 28, said she fled her home in Bangui with her husband and five young children due to fighting in the city in October 2014....
Human Rights Watch
Oct 5, 2017
