President Trump, stop blocking me on Twitter / CNN
When Donald Trump first started tweeting as president, my eyes were popping out of my head at each weird, angry and (we learned later) apparently unvetted…
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The Village That Cannot Sleep / The Guardian
A nearly full moon was the only light over the village of Kavumu, in eastern Congo, on the night of 26 December 2015. Just before midnight, a figure slipped quietly through the…
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Congo’s Soccer Players Get Cars. Its Rape Victims Get Nothing. / Foreign Policy
In 20 years of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, reports of mass rape have become depressingly commonplace — and so has the utter lack of justice for the women being…
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The U.N. Is Not Serious About Its Peacekeeper Rape Problem / Foreign Policy
It was a raid gone horribly wrong. In the early morning hours of Sunday, Aug. 2, U.N. peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic entered a Muslim enclave known as PK5 in…
There Are No Real ‘Safe Zones’ and There Never Have Been / Foreign Policy
As you climb the mountains high above Srebrenica, in the far east of Bosnia-Herzegovina, oak and beech trees become mixed with firs, pines, and spruce. It…
Women Alert to Travel’s Darker Side / NYT
The Lost Girls / Foreign Policy
How Rwandans Cope With the Horror of 1994 / The Atlantic
A Syrian Refugee Wedding / The Nation
India rape case a chilling reminder for women everywhere / CNN
Sexual assault is a cheap and effective weapon. But in a new case in which this weapon has so horrifyingly been wielded, in the northern state…
What It Takes to Get an Alleged Mass Rapist and 67 Militiamen Arrested in Congo / Foreign Policy
It was in a sickly green, fluorescent-lit meeting room in Bukavu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a couple of years ago that someone…
Si des petites filles âgées de 18 mois sont victimes de viols collectifs, pourquoi les suspects sont-ils libres? / The Guardian
Une fillette âgée de cinq ans est assise timidement sur son lit d’hôpital en métal alors que sa mère raconte ce qui l’a amenée à l’Hôpital…
If 18-month-old girls are being gang-raped, why are the suspects still free? / The Guardian
A five-year-old sat shyly in her metal hospital bed as her mother described what had brought her to Panzi hospital in the city of Bukavu, in…