Women, Children and Razor Wire: Inside a Compound for Boko Haram Families
By Dionne Searcey Former wives of Boko Haram commanders in June at a guarded compound in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Credit Jane Hahn for The New...
New York Times 1
Oct 10, 2016
Amal Clooney Says the UN Has Failed Yazidi Women
More than 3,000 Yazidi women and girls remain in ISIS sexual enslavement. Credit: Independent.co.uk Amal Clooney Criticizes World...
Newsweek
Sep 17, 2016
Cambodian Woman married off by the Khmer Rouge testifies on abuse
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — In a vast courtroom on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, a middle-aged Cambodian woman soberly described a night nearly...
New York Times 1
Sep 10, 2016
Boko Haram Victims: They were freed from rape camps. But their nightmare isn’t over.
By Kevin Sieff MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — For months, they were kept in tiny thatched huts in the middle of the forest, waiting with dread...
New York Times 1
Apr 3, 2016
The Secret War Crime
First they shot her husband. Then the soldiers killed her two sons, ages 5 and 7. When the uniformed men yanked her daughter from her...
TIME (Time Magazine)
Mar 10, 2016
Dispatches: On Africa and the ICC, Don’t Buy All the Hype
By Elise Keppler As the African Union summit closed on January 31, 2016, Kenyan media ignited with reports that the African Union...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 1, 2016
Raping Girls in Darfur: A Continuing Weapon of War
By Dr. Eric Reeves Despite an almost total lack of news coverage, genocide in Darfur is entering its fourteenth year. It is certainly...
Dr. Eric Reeves
Jan 21, 2016
ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape
Claiming the Quran’s support, the Islamic State codifies sex slavery in conquered regions of Iraq and Syria and uses the practice as a...
New York Times 1
Aug 13, 2015
Nepal: Conflict-Era Rapes Go Unpunished
Both government forces and Maoist combatants raped and sexually harassed women and girls during Nepal’s decade-long armed conflict, Human...
Human Rights Watch
Sep 23, 2014
