The Globe and Mail
Dec 11, 2017
Myanmar military’s rape of Rohingya sweeping, methodical
The soldiers arrived, as they often did, long after sunset. It was June, and the newlyweds were asleep in their home, surrounded by the...
The Independent
Nov 29, 2017
Violence against women in South Sudan is occurring at twice the global average rate
The country’s civil war has killed more than 50,000 people, forced more than two million to flee abroad and plunged parts of the country...
Linsey Chutel | Quartz Africa
Nov 29, 2017
BURUNDI: This east African country is waging a war on its women
Burundi has been in political turmoil ever since president Pierre Nkurunziza ran for a third term in 2015, flouting the country’s...
Jamille Bigio |Council on Foreign Relations
Nov 9, 2017
Five Questions About Sexual Violence in the Rohingya Crisis
The Five Questions Series is a forum for scholars, government officials, civil society leaders, and foreign policy practitioners to...
International Crisis Group 1
Nov 7, 2017
Bridging Pakistan’s Gender Divide
“Our people won’t let a girl study beyond the third grade (eight or nine years old). But this girl here cries and says: ‘I want to...
Human Rights Watch
Nov 6, 2017
Expose Abuses of Women in Detention in North Korea
A North Korean soldier stands guard at the entrance of a women’s prison near Chongsong, North Korea, May 31, 2009. © 2009 Reuters...
Lori Harwood | UA News
Oct 31, 2017
UA to Host Conference on Gender-Based Violence
The University of Arizona's first Conference on Gender-Based Violence will focus on survivorship. The conference will address the complex...
New York Times 1
Oct 25, 2017
Boko Haram strapped suicide bombs to them. Somehow these teenage girls survived.
By Dionne Searcey "They said to me, ‘Are you going to sleep with us, or do you want to go on a mission?’”AISHA, 15 “I didn’t want a...
New York Times 1
Oct 19, 2017
My Interview With a Rohingya Refugee: What Do You Say to a Woman Whose Baby Was Thrown Into a Fire?
By Jeffrey Gettleman Rajuma this month at the refugee camp in Bangladesh, to which she escaped in late August.CreditSergey Ponomarev for...
Human Rights Watch
Oct 11, 2017
Globally Girls Struggle for Rights
What does child marriage mean for girls’ lives? And why does child marriage persist? Child marriage and a lack of access to quality...
Human Rights Watch
Oct 9, 2017
ISIS’s Other Victims
By Belkis Wille A woman fleeing the fighting between the Islamic State and Iraqi Security Forces in Intisar neighbourhood in eastern...
Human Rights Watch
Oct 5, 2017
“They Said We Are Their Slaves”
Josephine, 28, said she fled her home in Bangui with her husband and five young children due to fighting in the city in October 2014....
