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During her official trip to Africa, Hillary Clinton had planned to impress upon her interlocutors the need to fight against corruption. The head of American diplomacy even insinuated that people take to the streets to protest against their corrupt governments. Among the themes that the US Secretary of State had chosen for this trip is violence against [...]

In Afghanistan and Eastern Congo, there is more than the undermining of the political, judicial, and civil rights of women. In these two countries, women are not considered as fellow humans to men. The treatment of women in these countries is beyond degrading; it is barbaric, even bizarre. Hatred towards the female is cultural in these parts of the [...]

In a recent study, one in four South Africans acknowledged committing a sexual violation in his life and close to half of all those surveyed admitted having done more than one attack. 73 percent of those who admitted to rape had their first violation even before they reached the age of 20. In addition, one in 20 respondents said he had raped a woman [...]

Upon the orders of a tribal council who wished to punish her family because her brother had sexual relations with a girl from a powerful clan and higher caste, Pakistani woman Mukhtar Mai was kidnapped and gang-raped in the eastern province of Punjab in 2002. The act was payment for her family’s ‘crime of honor.’ Her brother was sodomized by a [...]