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…
Intimacy That Kills / Foreign Policy
According to Pakistani police, this is what happened on May 27, the day a dark-eyed, pregnant woman named Farzana Parveen died: About two dozen men used…
Sexual violence against women is the result of the cult of masculinity / The Guardian
By Gloria Steinem and Lauren Wolfe Gangs of young men rape girls. They also sometimes act as pimps that seduce a girl, then subject her to…
Can we end rape as tool of war? By Gloria Steinem and Lauren Wolfe / CNN
We first thought about starting this piece with the story of Saleha Begum, a survivor of Bangladesh’s 1971 war in which, some reports say, as many…