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…
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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…
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…
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
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…
Bosnia verdict shows the tide is turning for leaders who use mass rape as a weapon of war / IBT
She was 17. Her name was Mirsada and she was rounded up with the other girls and women in her Bosnian village on March 3, 1992.…