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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…