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…
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.…
When War and Weather Conspire / Foreign Policy
A swamp is a bad place to live in tents. Mud turns to rivulets or dirty streams when rains come, breeding mosquitoes and the diseases they…
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…
Why the people crossing the Mediterranean aren’t ‘migrants’ / Reuters
More than 3,000 miles away from her home in Nigeria, a woman who lost her father in a terror attack sat slumped in her seat. “My…
The Worst of All Horrors / Foreign Policy
These days, no one seems to have endured just one kind of life-jarring experience in the conflict areas of Iraq. The suffering is multilayered: trauma caused…