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Sexual Terror: The Imperative Need to Combat the War on Women

Sexual Terror: The Imperative Need to Combat the War on Women

According to a very new law enacted in Afghanistan, it is legal to starve a wife who refuses sex. This is already a watered down version of the original bill that stipulates for a wife to have sex with her husband four days in a week. This law was signed just as Hamid Karzai was gunning for reelection. In Afghanistan, marital rape is legal. In Congo, [...]
NGOs oppose UN troops’ continued offensive against the radical Hutus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

NGOs oppose UN troops’ continued offensive against the radical Hutus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), installed since November 1999 and a mission that has already been costing $1 billion, reported that its troops did not suspend the current military operations against the Front démocratique pour la liberation du Rwanda (FDLR) in the east. NGOs have requested the [...]