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November 20, 2019 | Olivia Nightingale, Phyu Phyu Sann | Feminism, Gender-based violence, International, Politics, Violence against women
There can be no real accountability in Myanmar if women remain on the sidelines

Burmese women are critical to understanding a country whose people have endured systematic violence and repression for far too long. They can’t be forgotten.

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October 23, 2017 | Tendai Marima | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Renewed hope for Rwanda’s aging genocide widows

Unlike many other post-conflict African nations, Rwanda is working to support women widowed by the country’s 1994 genocide. With the establishment of care homes and other initiatives, the country’s elderly widows can finally find peace.

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October 06, 2017 | Liz Olson | Gender-based violence, International, Religion, Violence against women
Atrocities against Yazidis are instrumental in understanding role of gender in genocide

Ekhlas was 14 years old when Islamic State militants attacked the northern Iraqi city of Sinjar in August 2014. Her family tried to flee to nearby Mount Sinjar, but they never made it.

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September 14, 2015 | Kerry K. Paterson | International, Media, Violence against women
Required reading: 10 books on sexualized violence, gender, and war
Developing a full understanding of how sexualized violence plays out around the globe requires a lot of context. At its most basic, the issue is already difficult to comprehend, but when it happens in war, or when you begin to unpack its intersection with topics like gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or colonization, it can be intimidating just trying to figure out where to start.
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February 19, 2014 | Lauren Wolfe | International, Violence against women
#CongoWomenSpeak report: Faces of genocide
These are some of the faces of the 800,000 people killed in just 100 days in 1994 in Rwanda. The photos are hanging in Kigali’s genocide museum—a terrifying place that actually contains the remains of some 249,000 people murdered.
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August 07, 2013 | Alex Zucker | International, Violence against women
Can tracking rape in conflict prevent genocide?
Just as rape and other forms of sexualized violence have historically been viewed as a “natural” part of war, they have often been recognized as occurring in genocide but not necessarily as an act of genocide in itself.
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March 05, 2013 | Michele Lent Hirsch | International, Violence against women
New Holocaust findings highlight larger gap in conflict and rape research
One of the most emailed New York Times stories over the weekend was a piece about the Holocaust. In it, Eric Lichtblau explains new findings from experts at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: that the number of Nazi ghettos, camps, and other sites of systematic human misery is six times what the study authors had predicted.
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April 24, 2012 International, Violence against women
Obama includes sexualized violence in U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum remarks
On April 23, President Barack Obama delivered an address at a ceremony at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. He intended both to commemorate the Holocaust and to outline his administration's efforts to honor the pledge of “never again” by developing a comprehensive strategy to prevent and respond to genocide and mass atrocities.
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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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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 11, 2012 | Lauren Wolfe | International, Violence against women
Survivors of rape and genocide, hidden in plain sight
These indigenous women asked me not to show their faces. But they want their stories told. They traveled far from the Guatemalan highlands at the end of January to tell me and other journalists and activists on a delegation from the Nobel Women's Initiative about their experiences in the country's 36-year genocide and since.
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February 09, 2012 | Gloria Steinem, Lauren Wolfe | International, Misogyny, Violence against women
Can we end rape as tool of war?
We first thought about starting this piece with the story of Saleha Begum, a survivor of Bangladesh's 1971 war in which, some reports say, as many as 400,000 women were raped. Begum had been tied to a banana tree and repeatedly gang raped and burned with cigarettes for months until she was shot and left for dead in a pile of women. She didn't die, though, and was able to return home, ravaged and five months pregnant. When she got home she was branded a "slut."

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