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April 23, 2012 | Josh Shahryar | International, Misogyny, Violence against women
Afghan women face horrors for ‘moral crimes’
A cab driver abducted Marya, 15. He and another man raped her. Tahmina, 18, was trying to find the boy she liked in the hopes of escaping domestic violence and forced marriage. Two men she didn't know found her instead. They raped her. Malalai invited the guy she was seeing over to her house when she was alone, but he proved to be a mistake and raped her.
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April 17, 2012 | Lauren Wolfe | International, Violence against women
Lost in a life outside Syria

I met photojournalist Matilde Gattoni very recently on Facebook, which is to say we haven’t actually met in person. Even so, she’s already made an impression on me. Her work has a way of highlighting humanity—literally in chiaroscuro but also figuratively.

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April 16, 2012 | Rachel Halder | International, Violence against women
Photography as a baton: Spreading the message of Congo's women

It’s easy to get bogged down in statistics of women who experience sexualized violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The numbers are staggering: A study published in the American Journal of Public Health in May 2011 showed that 12 percent of women in Congo had been raped at least once in their lifetime.

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April 12, 2012 | Alice Laurel Driver | Girls, International, Violence against women
The Feminicide Debate
The author, who has been researching feminicide for the past three years, explores how language—the use of a term—can affect resources and state policies in fighting violence in Juárez, Mexico.
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April 10, 2012 | Shazia Z. Rafi | Feminism, International, Politics, Religion
Tunisia's Women—Defying the Odds
The author, secretary-general of Parliamentarians for Global Action, writes that Tunisia is finding its own way while Islamist movements gain power in the region.
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April 09, 2012 | Lauren Wolfe | International, Violence against women
Judgment call: Survivors of rape in Rwanda find themselves at odds with courts
Everyone wants justice. Don’t we? It seems easy—a crime is committed so we bring a lawsuit. Witnesses testify and justice is either served or punted over some kind of event horizon, never to be seen clearly again.
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April 08, 2012 | Julia O | Economy, Feminism, Gender-based violence, International, Media, Violence against women
Nujood Ali: A Real Life Heroine
The quote I have taped to the lower right hand corner of my bathroom mirror is "I no longer think about marriage." Nujood Ali spoke those words after successfully gaining her divorce at the age of 10....
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April 06, 2012 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, Health, International, Media
Saturday Vids: Health Has No Borders - Global Birth Control Access
To sign Planned Parenthood's "Health Has No Borders" petition click here ...
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April 03, 2012 | Fiona L | Economy, Education, Feminism, International, Media, Misogyny
To Educate A Girl
I’ve often wondered if those who are provided with less, make more with what they are given. A few weeks ago, I went to a screening of a documentary called To Educate A Girl, and was convinced once ag...
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April 02, 2012 | Michele Lent Hirsch | Immigration, International, Violence against women
For women displaced by war, can a new stove spell safety?
Usually, headlines about women and kitchen appliances conjure anti-feminist rhetoric. But as we've reported previously, the cooking tools that women in refugee camps use—and lack—may have a key effect on whether they're targets of rape.
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April 02, 2012 | Kathleen Barry | International, Media, Violence against women
Male Bonding—Military Massacres By The Book
The author of "Unmaking War, Remaking Men" writes that the behavior in Afghanistan of alleged killer Robert Bales was anything but unexpected.
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March 28, 2012 | Catherine Mullaly, Lauren Wolfe | International, Violence against women
The cartography of suffering: Women Under Siege maps sexualized violence in Syria
When we hear about conflicts in foreign countries and imagine terrible acts, our thoughts don’t turn immediately to rape. We think of bombings and refugees and government suppression.
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March 22, 2012 | Kate S | Education, Feminism, International, Media
Why We Need To Stop Being Politely Active
The International Women’s Rights Collective (IWRC) went to the third annual Women in the World Summit last weekend. The Summit, as I expected, was built on post-imperialistic rhetoric where women from...
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March 15, 2012 | Phyu Phyu Sann | International, Violence against women
License to rape: How Burma’s military employs systematic sexualized violence
Last week, a young woman from the Karen ethnic minority in Burma reported being “beaten, drugged, and sexually assaulted by two men wearing army fatigues.” In November 2011, reports emerged that four women were being kept as sex slaves by the Burmese military near the Kachin-China border; forced to cook and clean during the day and gang-raped at night by the soldiers in the Light Infantry Battalion 321. These reports, unfortunately, are not rare.
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March 14, 2012 | Michele Lent Hirsch | Girls, International, Violence against women
13-year-old rape survivor struggles to care for baby in Malawi
“I have lost hope,” a 13-year-old rape survivor tells Inter Press Service. After fleeing war in Congo, she was attacked by her own stepfather in a Malawi refugee camp, where she lives with 11,000 others. Now, she must care for the baby produced by the rape.
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March 09, 2012 | Lauren Wolfe | International, Violence against women
Guatemala’s war may be over, but the battle continues to be fought on women’s bodies
Guatemala City—There’s a heavy green to this place, layered. Clouds weigh on the hills and seep into the trees and grass and leaves and bushes. Every clearing we pass turns to depths, and in those reaches lie the dead.
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March 08, 2012 | Michele Lent Hirsch | Girls, International, Violence against women
Ask before you tell: How to make the world better for girls in conflict areas
The most positive, most productive way to improve the lives of girls in conflict areas may appear to be to sharply steer them away from stigma and violence. But as researchers and fieldworkers, advocates and policymakers, we have to consider the pitfalls of thinking we know best.
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March 08, 2012 | Christine Ahn | Feminism, International, LGBTQIA, Politics, Violence against women
Much to Celebrate
Today is International Women's Day. Christine Ahn and the Global Fund for Women mark the occasion by recalling substantial wins for women in 2011.
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March 06, 2012 | Amanda G | Education, Feminism, International, Race/Ethnicity
The Perils of Being A Feminist in the Dominican Republic
I’m currently a senior at my high school here in the Dominican Republic. I was born in the States and have lived overseas almost my entire life. I’m also Hispanic-- both my parents and the rest of my ...
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March 06, 2012 | Jessica Mack | International, Violence against women
‘Dawn of a new hope’ for whom? Systemic violence and impunity plague women in Ivory Coast
Laurent Gbagbo should have gone quietly. After a decade as President of Ivory Coast, mostly everyone—Ivorians and outsiders—agreed that he had lost the November 2010 election to Alasanne Outtarra. But he didn’t go and certainly not quietly, instead plunging the country into sinister chaos until his arrest in April.
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March 01, 2012 | Aaron Hall, Chloe Christman | International, Violence against women
Minerals, militias, and rape: How do we make peace a reality in Congo?
As nightfall approached on July 30, 2010, hundreds of armed men streamed into the village of Luvungi in eastern Congo from the nearby forests surrounding the area. At first they told the villagers they were just there for food and shelter and that their presence should cause no alarm. However, what unfolded over the next four days marked one of the worst attacks against a civilian community in Congo in the last two years.
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February 29, 2012 | Lauren Wolfe | International, Violence against women
Secret Holocaust files may finally see the light of day

We know that thousands of women were raped during the Holocaust. We also know that rape was never part of any charges against anyone responsible for the era’s atrocities. In a thrilling new turn of events, files long locked away at UN headquarters in New York have revealed details of investigations into the use of rape by Nazis. Could this lead to justice for women brutalized in other wars?

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February 28, 2012 | Yifat Susskind | International, Violence against women
Haiti’s women face echoes of a violent past

After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, stories of the disaster dominated international news media. Journalists rushed to report on the wreckage. Photographers scrambled for shots of the rubble. Aid agencies struggled to overcome obstacles to sending humanitarian aid.

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February 24, 2012 | Javier Zurita, Ofelia de Pablo | International, Race/Ethnicity, Violence against women
The invisible genocide of women

More than 100,000 women were raped in the 36-years Guatemalan genocide—at least 200,000 people died. In this video, photojournalists Ofelia de Pablo and Javier Zurita interview survivors and document the ongoing forensic and legal investigation that recently indicted former Guatemalan President Efraín Ríos Montt.

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February 21, 2012 | Michele Lent Hirsch | International, Violence against women
The safest prey: When refugee camps become sites of violence

Even war is safer than this. Imagine it: Your family attacked. Your house teeming with soldiers. Your options running out. A protected area for victims of war sounds like a wise place to flee.


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