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- Nyasha Bhobo
- • October 17, 2022
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — When news that a mob of men raped eight young women last summer during a music-video production set in an abandoned mining site in Krugersdorp, Sipehle wasn’t optimistic that the culprits would be prosecuted….
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Women
- Dawn Clancy
- • January 5, 2022
After four hours of torture, Flora Igoki Terah arrived at Nairobi Women’s Hospital on Sept. 7, 2007, with smashed bones, a shaven head and clumps of human feces jammed in her throat. Months before the attack, Terah’s torturers sent…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Governance, Women
- Adriana Erthal Abdenur
- • December 4, 2017
There is no denying that sexual exploitation and abuse has acquired greater urgency within the context of United Nations peace operations. Although the UN launched its zero tolerance policy in 2003, a recent report tallied some two thousand accusations…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping, WORLDVIEWS
- Michael Curtin
- • October 23, 2017
Oct. 24 is not just another day on the calendar. It is United Nations Day, an excellent time to take note of one of the accomplishments the world body has achieved in its 72-year history. The global institution has…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Migration, Refugees, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 1, 2017
As the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate in Iraq crumbles, assessments begin to emerge of the damage left in its wake by its cultural nihilism and harsh sectarian absolutism designed to remake an Arab society. The human costs have been…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, Responsibility to Protect, Security Council, Terrorism, Women
- Kacie Candela
- • March 22, 2017
Jess Engrebretson is a different kind of humanitarian-aid worker. As an American journalist and Thomas J. Watson Fellow, she has worked with local radio projects in Indonesia, Rwanda and Liberia on post-conflict resolution and human-rights reporting. From 2014 to…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping
- Clothilde Le Coz
- • February 29, 2016
PHNOM PENH — Acid is increasingly becoming a personal weapon of choice, especially against women. In the last 15 years, it has been estimated that more than 3,200 acid-throwing attacks were recorded in countries as varied as Bangladesh, Britain, Colombia, Pakistan and…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Women
- Johanna Higgs
- • January 24, 2016
BUENOS AIRES — Like many countries, Argentina is considered a source, transit and destination nation for the trafficking of men, women and girls, according to the United States State Department. Female victims and children are brought to the country…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Women
- Johanna Higgs
- • August 31, 2015
MEDELLIN, Colombia — “There is conflict in every single country in the world,” a 16-year-old former combatant from the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC, rebel group said at a rehabilitation center for demobilized child soldiers here in…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Human Rights, Latin America, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 16, 2015
A report commissioned by the United Nations but never made public — which studied sexual exploitation and abuse committed by UN peacekeepers — has been released online by AIDS-Free World, a nonprofit organization founded by two former UN officials,…
- Categories: Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping, Women
- Kathie Klarreich
- • January 20, 2015
On Jan. 23, the members of the United Nations Security Council will head to Haiti. It’s safe to assume that they will focus on the political crisis: because parliamentary elections were not held by Haiti’s legislative deadline, the…
- Categories: Caribbean, Gender Violence, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 4, 2015
The news from Syria and Iraq is most often dominated by besieged cities and airstrikes on the strongholds of the Muslim extremists of the Islamic State. What those fighters are doing to women they abduct is often hidden by…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Middle East, Women
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