How Boko Haram Trains Abducted Women and Girls to Be Suicide Bombers
By Dionne Searcey MINAWAO REFUGEE CAMP, Cameroon — Hold the bomb under your armpit to keep it steady, the women and girls were taught....
New York Times 1
Apr 7, 2016
Boko Haram Victims: They were freed from rape camps. But their nightmare isn’t over.
By Kevin Sieff MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — For months, they were kept in tiny thatched huts in the middle of the forest, waiting with dread...
New York Times 1
Apr 3, 2016
The Secret War Crime
First they shot her husband. Then the soldiers killed her two sons, ages 5 and 7. When the uniformed men yanked her daughter from her...
TIME (Time Magazine)
Mar 10, 2016
Raping Girls in Darfur: A Continuing Weapon of War
By Dr. Eric Reeves Despite an almost total lack of news coverage, genocide in Darfur is entering its fourteenth year. It is certainly...
Dr. Eric Reeves
Jan 21, 2016
ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape
Claiming the Quran’s support, the Islamic State codifies sex slavery in conquered regions of Iraq and Syria and uses the practice as a...
New York Times 1
Aug 13, 2015
Nepal: Conflict-Era Rapes Go Unpunished
Both government forces and Maoist combatants raped and sexually harassed women and girls during Nepal’s decade-long armed conflict, Human...
Human Rights Watch
Sep 23, 2014
Gay Azerbaijan Teenager Set Ablaze by Homophobic Parents
A teenager fled for his life after being set ablaze in a homophobic attack by his own parents after they found out he was gay. The...
Dominic Glover, International Business Times
Aug 12, 2014
A Precarious End to Uganda’s Anti-Gay Act
Late last week, Uganda’s constitutional court struck down the country’s anti-homosexuality act, a law that mandates severe...
The New Yorker
Aug 5, 2014
Uganda: Program for Male Rape Victims Threatened by Antigay Law
Ironically, the same Ugandan police forces expressing willingness to help male victims of rape overcome stigma have been accused as...
Genocide Watch
Jul 29, 2014
