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WMC Women Under Siege
August 10, 2020 | Shirin Bhandari | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Three Years After the Marawi Siege, Residents Cannot Return to Their Ancestral Lands

Years after Marawi was liberated from jihadists loyal to the Islamic State, thousands of residents have not been allowed to return to their own land. Now, they face the government’s backhoes contracted to flatten the remnants of their ancestral property to commercialize the city and make it a tourist destination.

WMC Women Under Siege
August 07, 2020 | David Njagi | Environment, Gender-based violence, Girls, International, Violence against women
Facing Both Drought and Pandemic, Teen Girls in Kenya’s Slums Are Forced into Early Marriage to Feed Families

As climate change and the pandemic inflate food sales, families in Kenya's slums, already sunken into poverty, are resorting to marrying off their young daughters.

WMC Women Under Siege
August 03, 2020 | Urmi Bhattacheryya | Gender-based violence, Girls, International, Violence against women
As Time Slowed in India’s Justice System, an Eight-Month-Old Rape Victim Grew Up

Cases under India’s Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act are meant to be fast-tracked, but the reality of the judicial system's backlog often means that those cases can drag on for years. One of Delhi's most infamous and horrific rape cases is among them. Amid the long slog of court appearances, postponements — and now, the pandemic — a child victim grows up.

WMC Women Under Siege
July 27, 2020 | Naomi Larsson, Charis McGowan | Feminism, Free Speech, Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Women Survivors of Torture Under Pinochet Fight His Grandniece's Appointment as Women's Minister

Women survivors of sexual torture under Augusto Pinochet's 17-year dictatorship in Chile never felt that the horrors suffered during that time have ever been adequately confronted, allowing his legacy to remain intact. Then his relative was appointed to a political role protecting women's rights.

WMC Women Under Siege
July 20, 2020 | Kamala Thiagarajan | Feminism, Gender-based violence, Girls, International, Misogyny, Online harassment, Violence against women
Instagram Scandal in Delhi’s Elite Schools Complicates India’s Reckoning with Sexual Violence

When an Instagram private group of twenty schoolboys from Delhi's elite schools fantasizing and degrading their female classmates went viral, it was supposed to offer a cultural reckoning for India's teens about misogyny and gendered violence. Then, it took a dark turn.

WMC Women Under Siege
July 17, 2020 | Torinmo Salau | Gender-based violence, Violence against women
Addressing surging gendered violence in locked-down Nigeria

As reports of domestic and sexualized violence surge under lockdown in Nigeria, NGOs and government agencies must adapt their responses to meet the challenge.

WMC Women Under Siege
June 30, 2020 | Sada Malumfashi | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Young women lead a movement against sexual violence and patriarchy in northern Nigeria

Rallies across Nigeria's northern states push for protections for victims of sexual and gender-based violence, led by young women who are challenging the roles they occupy in a deeply conservative society.

WMC Women Under Siege
June 22, 2020 | Joni Hess | Arts and culture, Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
‘#WeAreDyingHere’ breaks the silence on gender-based violence in South Africa

A spoken-word performance takes aim at the pervasiveness of gender-based violence in South Africa, inspiring community activism from the grassroots and demanding that the government confront its failure to protect women.

WMC Women Under Siege
June 10, 2020 | Neha Maqsood | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
The Aurat March ushers in a radical feminist movement in Pakistan

Now in its third year, the Aurat March is raising the call of Pakistan's women to abolish systems built on hegemony, patriarchy, and neo-colonialism.

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June 05, 2020 | Melody Chikono | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Zimbabwe’s women miners left vulnerable to machete-wielding gangs

Continuous attacks by machete-wielding gangs against artisanal miners in Zimbabwe disproportionately affect women miners, highlighting longstanding impediments for women to access the sector and threatening the government's target for an annual mining revenue of $12 billion by 2023.

WMC Women Under Siege
May 26, 2020 | Safina Nabi | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Security forces target women with impunity during Kashmir crackdown

Last August, India's Hindu nationalist government scrapped Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian constitution, stripping the state of Jammu & Kashmir of its special constitutional status. What followed is only the latest chapter in a documented history of sexualized violence by security forces as a means to quell dissent in Muslim-majority Kashmir.

WMC Women Under Siege
May 19, 2020 | Urmi Bhattacheryya | Gender-based violence, Girls, International, Violence against women
Raped at eight months old: the child the world forgot

In early 2018, the story of a baby who was raped by a relative sent shockwaves around the world. Two years later, the world has moved on, but she is no closer to receiving justice.

WMC News & Features
May 07, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Virus-hit countries devise schemes to help domestic violence victims

Countries like Spain, France, the UK, Argentina, and Norway have devised schemes that allow women to seek help without alerting their partners.

WMC Women Under Siege
May 04, 2020 | Hilary Weaver | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
What happens to domestic violence survivors when natural disasters hit in the middle of a pandemic?

The loss of resources, support systems, and general safety puts survivors at risk of further abuse.

WMC News & Features
April 29, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | Gender-based violence, Girls, Online harassment, Violence against women
Unexpected pandemic effect: Child abuse proliferates online

The coronavirus pandemic has led to a massive surge in child abuse material being uploaded, according to a story from the Fuller Project for International Reporting co-published with the UK Telegraph.

WMC Women Under Siege
April 28, 2020 | Naomi Larsson | Feminism, Gender-based violence, International, Misogyny, Violence against women
How a Chilean protest song became a feminist anthem around the world

Almost six months since it was first performed, “Un Violador en Tu Camino” (“A Rapist in Your Path”) has become a universal feminist anthem that has crossed borders, languages, and cultures.

WMC Women Under Siege
April 20, 2020 | Raphael Tsavkko Garcia | Disability, Gender-based violence, International, Misogyny, Violence against women, WMC Loreen Arbus Journalism Program
While murder rates fall in Brazil, femicide remains on the rise

While murder rates are falling in Brazil, femicide rates continue to steadily climb, and with President Jair Bolsonaro at the helm, there are no promising signs of the violence abating.

WMC Women Under Siege
April 13, 2020 | Chantal Flores | Feminism, Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
In Mexico’s state of Nuevo León, a new sororidad rises

In Mexico's northeastern state of Nuevo León, young feminists are creating their own safe spaces to share, bond and mobilize, and demand an end to the country's pervasive gender-based violence.

WMC News & Features
March 26, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | Gender-based violence, Health, Violence against women
Coronavirus prompts women stuck in abusive homes to seek ‘safe phones’

In Australia, a government-supported initiative that provides “safe phones” to women stuck in violent homes is seeing a serious uptick in requests attributed to the virus, the Thomson Reuters Foundation reported Wednesday.

WMC Women Under Siege
March 23, 2020 | Nicola Pardy | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Amid Syria’s civil war, a rise in miscarriages among displaced women in the northeast

Months after Turkish forces launched an offensive in the Rojava region, which some have likened to genocide, a rise in miscarriages sheds light on the unseen impacts of the occupation.

WMC News & Features
March 19, 2020 | Jhumka Gupta, ScD, MPH | Gender-based violence, Health
What does coronavirus mean for violence against women?

While necessary to combat the spread of COVID-19, sheltering in place has been shown to exacerbate domestic violence.

WMC News & Features
March 18, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | Gender-based violence, Health, International
Situation deteriorates for Syrian women and girls

Stories about something that is “still” happening don’t get many eyeballs. But there is no way around what is still happening to Syrian women and girls as the conflict enters its 10th year, and the United Nations is sounding the alarm.

WMC News & Features
March 05, 2020 | Carla Hay | Gender-based violence, Media
Athena Film Festival gives voice to “silence breakers”

Weinstein and Simmons accusers had an opportunity to speak out at a festival panel and react to Weinstein's conviction.

WMC Women Under Siege
February 26, 2020 | Sara Cincurova | Gender-based violence, International, Media, Misogyny, Online harassment, Violence against women
Women journalists face life-threatening risks in Venezuela

While Venezuela reels from its ongoing political and humanitarian crises, attacks against members of the press, and particularly women journalists, have become especially acute.

WMC News & Features
February 14, 2020 | Lauren Wolfe | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Vast number of refugee women sexually abused while awaiting UK asylum

A shocking new report from Women for Refugee Women, a UK-based nonprofit, says one-third of women they interviewed who had been raped or sexually assaulted in their home countries have faced further rape or sexual abuse while destitute in the UK.

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