Will There Ever Be Justice for Syria’s Rape Survivors? / The Nation
The door kept opening. In would come young men, sometimes hobbling a bit. They’d speak to the man behind the desk in Arabic and step back…
What’s going on in Syria is about a lot more than chemical weapons / The Guardian
We’re off talk of “intervention” in Syria, and on to trying to get everyone to the negotiating table. It’s not going very well. The head of…
Where is ‘red line’ on rape in war? / CNN
I remember a chalk line drawn on blacktop by a group of kids at recess when I was young. The message was clear: This is the…
‘Take Your Portion’: A Victim Speaks Out About Rape in Syria / The Atlantic
Alma Abdulrahman is lying gaunt and unable to move anything below her diaphragm in a hospital bed in Amman. Some bedsores have become so deep she’s…
A Syrian Refugee Wedding / The Nation
Inside a furniture-free caravan in the Jordanian desert, sixteen women and girls and a plump boy wedge themselves in a circle around a 15-year-old girl and…
Syria Has a Massive Rape Crisis / The Atlantic
One day in the fall of 2012, Syrian government troops brought a young Free Syrian Army soldier’s fiancée, sisters, mother, and female neighbors to the Syrian…