In coup-riddled Guinea, women have also been the target of violence. Anonymously circulating cellphone images reveal sexual molestation and physical beatings of women done in public. ‘They show that women were the particular targets of the Guinean soldiers who suppressed a political demonstration at a stadium here last week, with victims and witnesses describing rapes, [...]

Renowned director Roman Polanski’s sudden arrest in Switzerland for alleged rape of minor way back in 1977 has evoked varied reaction all over the world, with majority condemning the arrest. But the reaction in America has been sharply polarized. Hollywood has openly rallied behind one of the greatest living directors while a section of media [...]

Based on testimonies and reports, at least 200 protesters have so far been killed in Iran, while 56 other people have disappeared during the protests in Tehran. Torture of political prisoners has also been rampant. One such case is 24-year old student Javadifar Amir who suffered fatal beatings. He was earlier ‘arrested in Tehran for [...]

A US federal jury sentenced to five consecutive life terms a former American soldier for raping and fatally shooting an Iraqi girl aged 14, as well as killing three of her family members. The carnage happened while Steven Dale Green, 24, of Midland, Texas, was serving in Iraq in 2006.
‘Green shot and killed the teen’s [...]

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 [...]

One of the collaborative sponsorship efforts between the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is a significant research conducted by Global Rights: Partners for Justice and Afghan civil society which discloses the finding that ‘violations of women in Afghanistan are a daily occurrence around the country [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The revelations contained in the 2,600-page report by Ireland’s Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse are shocking, to say the least. The report details the terror and abuse inflicted by Catholic clergy and nuns on thousands of boys and girls in Catholic educational institutions, making the conclusion that ‘rape, sexual violence, and physical abuse were [...]

The country of Mexico began its court trial before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) for alleged impunity, lack of investigation, and insufficient action on the murders of women committed in Ciudad Juárez over the last decade.
The trial took place in Santiago de Chile at the end of April. The prosecution focuses on the [...]