Washington Post
Apr 18, 2018
Statue of ‘father of gynecology,’ who experimented on enslaved women, removed from Central Park
The first patient to endure James Marion Sims’s experimental surgery in 1845 was named Lucy. Lucy, an enslaved black woman in Alabama,...
United Nations
Apr 17, 2018
Myanmar Armed Forces Blacklisted By UN For Committing Sexual Violence Against Rohingya
By Joanne Lu For the first time ever, the UN secretary-general is including Myanmar Armed Forces on an annual blacklist of groups that...
John Ray | ITV News
Apr 12, 2018
Thousands flee fighting in eastern DR Congo to Uganda
At first the silence is strange, then unnerving. An African village missing its people. Perhaps 2,000 men, woman and children, vanished....
Koji Miki | The Mainichi
Apr 11, 2018
History of Wartime 'Rape Camp' in Bosnia Wiped from Town's Collective Memory
VISEGRAD, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- About a 5-minute drive from the center of this town in Bosnia and Herzegovina's northeast is the hotel...
Koji Miki | The Mainichi
Apr 10, 2018
Women in Serb-Controlled Region of Bosnia Still Await Compensation for Wartime Abuse
TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- The third collection letter demanding that 64-year-old Semka Agic pay 3,000 convertible marks (roughly...
Koji Miki | The Mainichi
Apr 9, 2018
For Women Raped During Bosnian War, Still no End to Pain 25 years Later
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- While nearly 20 years has passed since the end of the Bosnian War following the breakup of Yugoslavia,...
21st Century Wilberforce Initiative 11
Mar 13, 2018
Stolen Lives: More Girls Kidnapped as Violence Escalates in Nigeria
Terrorists continue to attack northern Nigeria, and Christians are in the crosshairs. During the evening hours of February 19, Boko Haram...
Darfur Women Action Group
Mar 8, 2018
International Women's Day 2018
Today, in honor of International Women's Day, we would like to commemorate women from all around the world for their strength and...
International Crisis Group 1
Mar 7, 2018
A Hidden Face of War
By Isabelle Arradon A few years ago, a woman in her sixties outside Banda Aceh in Indonesia told me about the rape and other torture she...
Reporters without Borders 1
Mar 5, 2018
RSF shines light on “forbidden coverage” of women’s rights
To mark International Women’s Day (March 8), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is publishing a report entitled “Women’s rights: Forbidden...
Remember the Women Institute
Feb 22, 2018
Violated! Women in Holocaust and Genocide
A GROUP ART EXHIBITION BY REMEMBER THE WOMEN INSTITUTE Ronald Feldman Gallery 31 Mercer Street SoHo New York City April 12-May 12,...
Darfur Women Action Group
Jan 20, 2018
Speak Up for Women in Darfur!
Today, we at DWAG would like to express our solidarity with the all the women across the globe participating in the Women's March and...
