sexual violence against women
- Catherine Morrison
- • September 15, 2021
For more than two decades, sexual violence against women in Somalia has become more pervasive as the country has been torn by civil conflict and state collapse. However, after an alarming 80 percent increase in the number of confirmed…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 6, 2017
• Prodded by Tunisian advocacy organizations and assisted by international legal experts, the Tunisian parliament passed a law in late July not only to curb violence against women but also to introduce measures to protect them and provide help…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Poverty, Take a Look, US Foreign Relations
- 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
- Lori Silberman Brauner
- • March 28, 2016
Maureen Phiri, a young girl from a poor family in Malawi, was only 11 years old when she was raped by the man who had hired her to do housework for him and his wife. Not only did Maureen continue…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, UN Agencies, Women
- Johanna Higgs and Liga Rudzite
- • May 6, 2014
KURDISTAN, Iraq — For many women in Kurdistan, life is anything but honorable. We have come to this autonomous region in northern Iraq as social anthropologists to research violence against women — particularly, honor killings — by interviewing local…
- Categories: Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 27, 2014
Can a bill languishing in the United States Congress make a difference to half the people of a country more than 7,500 miles away? Yes, said Wangechi Wachira-Moegi, the executive director of an organization in Nairobi, Kenya, that works…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 13, 2014
The first step to possibly try Bosco Ntaganda, a Congolese warlord born in Rwanda, for war crimes and crimes against humanity, began recently at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Ntaganda, who turned himself in to the court…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, ICC, International Justice, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 28, 2014
Now that Gao, a remote but critical outpost in northern Mali, has become a hub of military personnel — Mali Army, French troops and UN peacekeepers — to fend off terrorist incursions, it is also a simmering spot for…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
- Ryan Villarreal
- • January 8, 2014
For the past three decades, Costa Rica has carried out progressive steps to reduce violence against women, a major inhibitor of human and economic development in the country and throughout Latin America. While the issue has garnered more attention…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Latin America, UN Agencies, Women
- Clothilde Le Coz
- • December 4, 2013
PHNOM PENH — Kunthear Laut, a 33-year-old Cambodian woman, is a child of marital rape and a victim of two rapes as well as three attempts and at least five years of incest from her uncle. “A woman has…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Women
- Navi Pillay
- • November 4, 2013
There is now overwhelming evidence that conflicts exacerbate pre-existing gender discrimination and put women and girls at heightened risk of sexual, physical and psychological violence. One appalling example of this evidence is the report recently to the Human…
- Categories: Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 31, 2013
One question about women’s rights that may never go away is how to ensure that women are represented fairly in large organizations, like the United Nations. For now, work on “gender mainstreaming” may suffice by concentrating on small steps…
- Categories: Gender Violence, International Justice, Peace and Security, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 19, 2013
Latin American and Caribbean nations have pulled ahead of most other developing regions on numerous measures of economic growth and human progress in recent years. The region has one of the world’s lowest poverty levels; hunger has been reduced…
- Categories: Health and Population, Human Rights, Latin America, Women
- Randi Aho, Kathryn Bowman and Delaney Simon
- • July 15, 2013
At the United Nations Security Council’s ministerial meeting on securing peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the rest of the Great Lakes region on July 25, to be presided over by United States Secretary of State…
- Categories: Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS
- Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
- • June 7, 2013
A global women’s organization with wide experience in peace-building recently brought together scores of prominent women from six African nations to take well-defined steps for dealing with the root causes of the persistent sexual violence occurring in the Democratic Republic of…
- Categories: Gender Violence, WORLDVIEWS
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