The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is touted to be a ‘vast, mineral rich and war torn country.’ Some experts do not buy the image. One thing is certain, though. The country is a failure, especially in its attempts at conflict reconstruction. For starters, Congo seems to have the world’s largest franchise of human [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mistrust, prejudice and little support – this is the daily life of thousands of women raped during the Bosnian war (1992-1995), 14 years after the end of the conflict. It is unknown how many women were raped, but estimates reveal at least 25,000, most of them Muslim. There were Serbs and Croats, too. NGOs estimate [...]